heterosexism vs homophobia/ anti-homosexuality (fwd)

[Liza Featherstone]

Also-- there have been women and folks with a class analysis attacking
monogamy much earlier; Emma Goldman and her cohort in the teens and twenties
for example. But I understand that you're talking about the origin of the
attack in its current and absolutely most mainstream form. 
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>The attack on Monogamy --the breadwinner father/homemaker mother model of
>Monogamy --was initiated by men in the 50s, its first  manifesto found in
>the pages of  Playboy--the "Bible of the beleaguered male" and its first
>real rebels were the Beats.  Its psychology and even biological necessity
>was theorized in the human potential movement and by a medical
>establishment obsessed by  cardiac arrests, thought to be some unique male
>health problem brought on by the drudgery, heart attack inducing agony of
>being a Husband.  
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>So, again, it's just not clear to me how "free love"  in and of itself  is
>any sort of threat to capitalism.
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>Kelley
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