>> furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 10/21/00 11:32AM >>
My argument is that the abolition of heterosexism, together with all
other oppressions, will make the modern _categories of sexual
orientations_ -- the idea that there are different _natural kinds_ of
people called "heterosexuals," "bisexuals," and "homosexuals" --
obsolete. As Foucault, John D'Emilio, Jonathan Ned Katz, etc. have
argued, these categories did not exist before the emergence of modern
capitalist societies with their attendant transformation of the
nature of families, etc. These are historically bounded & transient
categories.
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CB: Given that feudalism and slavery were class exploitative societies too, do these authors posit oppressive conceptions of sexuality unique to those societies ? How do they analyze the unique articulation of these categories with capitalism ?