homophobia

[Liza Featherstone]

Yeah, I meant in US and similar. But I agree about the periphery, more 
development seems to almost always affect homophobia (for  want of better 
word), and maybe to a more complicated degree sexism (again for want of a 
better word). And as for biotechnology, though I confess to being personally 
sqeamish about this stuff,  I find it  v. politically  exciting: artificial 
insemination, crazy egg tricks, repro tech has tremendous implications for 
changing the way we organize and think about gender, sexuality, family. And 
the relationship of women to work. Lesbian and late-middle-aged moms are 
probably just the beginning...

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 
> Liza wrote:
> >More technology, more
> >capitalism, more urbanization is totally irrelevant to homophobia.
> 
> I agree that 'more capitalism, more urbanization' is not very relevant for
> whether homophobia strengthens or weakens in core capitalist countries. It
> might make much difference in the periphery, however, capitalism being a
> process of uneven and combined development, socially + ideologically.
> 
> What of the question of technology, more specifically reproductive
> technology? It seems that it has much social and ideological implications
> for gender/sexuality questions.
> 
> Yoshie