Queer Bodies and Queer Love

Maren Behrensen

doi:10.4324/9781315645209-9

Queer Bodies and Queer Love

Maren Behrensen

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In this chapter, I contend that while we have understood how the queer body can be desired, we have not yet understood how queer persons can be loved. If we assume (as I will do for now) that romantic love is intrinsically connected to sexual desire, and that one of its salient features (and perhaps the salient feature) is erotic attraction to embodied persons—and that all bodies must be gendered bodies and that embodiment presupposes gender—then queer love is either nothing more than depersonalized desire, or it is disembodied love with no intrinsic connection to sexual desire.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy
Editors	Adrienne M. Martin
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	8
Pages	93-104
ISBN (Print)	9781317291305
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645209-9
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

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