Conjugality

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ID3629520
AuthorsDanai S Mupotsa (0000-0001-5338-3904, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume26
Issue3
Pages377-403
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/10642684-8311758
OpenAlexW4236987250
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited54

The wedding is often observed as performing a narrative closure, for instance, as a ritual that acts as a rite of passage to proper sex, or proper gendered and sexuated statuses framed in the terms of heteronormativity and homonormativity. The aims of this article are to sit beside recent scholarship that examines marriage, as well as the law/legal infrastructure and language that offer conjugal rights, that is, social, economic, and legal rights, and confers statuses of personhood to those who have access to them. Bride, regardless of the specific gendered status and personhood occupied within legal, social, and economic terms here, does not (only) refer to the constituted individual who lives or experiences a gendered and sexed position and location but, rather, refers to the ritual process itself that comes to produce a range of positions, scenes, desires, practices intensities, and, finally, confusions around which the expression of liberal subjecthood, or ethnic and national identity, might emerge

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