Kim--

There is a lot of great of work on the violence of analogies in queer of
color critique and woman of color feminism (this is a key theme in both of
these fields). Analogy has been long critiqued for its failure to account
for the mutual constitution of categories and practices of difference.
Intersectionality, queer of color critique, and woman of color feminism
have all been theorized as offering precisely what the violence of analogy
erases.

Some places to start:

Rod Ferguson. *Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique*.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Jasbir Puar. *Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times*.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Anjali Arondekar. "Border/Line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities, or How Race
Matters Outside the United States." *interventions* 7.2 (2005): 236-50.

Siobhan Somerville. "Queer Loving." *GLQ* 11.3 (2005): 335-70.

David Eng. *The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization
of Intimacy.* Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.


Hope this helps!

Cathy

Cathy Hannabach
Visiting Lecturer, Women's Studies
University of Pittsburgh
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Kim Leighton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> Hi All
>
> I'm wondering if anyone might be able to suggest a few resources for me on
> the ethics of analogies.  I'm currently writing about how critics of gamete
> donation often make strong use of an analogy to adoption in order to draw
> out the moral issues they believe are salient.  I'm critical of this
> analogy for a number of reasons that extend beyond the issue of  aptness.
> Are there any good papers that consider how analogies (both in their making
> and in their uptake) can appropriate and/or misrecognize the experience of
> a group?  I'm also struggling with what terminology to use to describe what
> I find un-ethical about this analogy's use in terms of both what it assumes
> or relies upon and what it seems to accomplish/establish through its use.
> I'm not sure what to call the kind of reinscription I see at the heart of
> the analogy and its use.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance!  I know it's a horribly busy time of
> year, so ANY quick reference would be appreciated.  You can reach me via my
> personal [log in to unmask] I'll happily post a list of
> references to the group should I be able to gather one.
>
> Warmest wishes,
> Kim
>
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