Undoing gender

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In fact, to understand the violation that incest can be - and also to distinguish between those occasions of incest that are violation and those that are not - it is unnecessary to figure the body of the child exclusively as a surface imposed upon from the outside. [...] So I keep adding this qualification: "when incest is a violation," suggesting that I think that there may be occasions in which it is not. Why would I talk that way? Well, I do think that there are probably forms of incest that are not necessarily traumatic or which gain their traumatic character by virtue of the consciousness of social shame that they produce.

source: From the book 'Undoing Gender' by Judith Butler; books.google.nl/; Book from 2004