"Heterosexual Marriage"!

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Sun Oct 22 11:48:04 PDT 2000



>> 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 ?



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