"As feminist anthropologists, the longstanding concerns with equity in our field make us advisedly skeptical, yet emboldened by these new possibilities. The peril of the normative, of course, is that you can create legal equity, but as activists for social justice can attest, this runs the risk of (re)enforcing social norms that restrict choices for the very groups we seek to liberate. Too often that is what we get when legal responses to social justice are seen as the end all be all solutions to inequality. Rather, anthropological analyses must continue to illuminate the myriad forms of family and kinship, as well as the inevitable inequities that will arise in response to recent Supreme Court Decisions. In the end we ask: What did we get from the Supreme Court? On the one hand, a nod to equity that denies the structural history of racism in the United States. On the other, an embrace of one form of equity that presumes normativity in the ongoing “culture war” over marriage and family."
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:04:09 +0000
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