Amy Allen, “The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory” (Columbia UP, 2016)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Queer Left Critique of Gay Marriage
Gay marriage debates have become kind of bound up with an logic of homo nationalism says Hannah. The problematic thing is the way that that stance toward gay marriage is being used as a way of positioning countries where there's opposition to homosexuality as backward or primitive than we are, she adds. "We can get found up with these other kinds of oppressive logics without necessarily intending to or realizing it because we are hanging on to this particular conception of progress" said Hannah.
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