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The criminal law of incest that emerged in the United States after the Civil War played a key role in producing race, gender, sexuality, and the normative family through the bodies of children, effectively framing the problem of incest as one of social property interests. Drawing upon case analyses, this article illustrates the role of incest law in producing white female children as sites of both sexual pleasure and biological reproduction by framing incest through the property interests of white males. Read through insights from feminist legal theory, these cases help to clarify law's framing of the problem of sex with children as inextricably linked to reproductively viable white girls, reflecting contemporary anxieties around the relationship between racial purity and whites' property interests. This analysis reveals how the criminal law functions as a technology of propertisation, bolstering the property interests of fathers in service of a broader project of property consolidation and accumulation for white male elites, linking some children's bodies to the reproduction of an exploiter class while excluding others.

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Author

Jenny Logan

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences