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The Shadow of Heterosexuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Drucilla Cornell
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Abstract

In this essay, Cornell first invokes the concept of ‘imaginary domain’ to challenge the legal legitimacy of heterosexism in any form. She then claims that the imposition of heterosexism on the imaginary is a trauma whose severity can be grasped only with the help of psychoanalysis. Second, she argues that we cannot understand or undermine the power of heterosexist ideas without an alternative ethic of love. In beginning to think about a love that would necessarily pit itself against heterosexism, Cornell draws on Jacques Derrida's metaphor of the lovance.

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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Writing Against Heterosexism , Winter 2007, pp. 229 - 242
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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