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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:02:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Eugene W. Holland" <holland.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: no heterosexuality?


At 12:03 AM 6/25/98 -0400, Unleesh wrote:
>I was reading a passage where Guattari says there is only homosexuality, no
>heterosexuality. This is somehow connected to Levi-Strauss's theory of
>marriage arrangement, etc. 
>Could someone please explain this to me?
>
I don't know the context in which Guattari said this, but I believe D&G say
something similar in A-O about homosexuality and L-S's exchange theory: that
(heterosexual) marriage is not an end, but a means of exchanging women in
order to cement homosocial (homosexual) bonds between clans and their (male)
leaders.  [They don't seem to distinguish, as I just have, between
homosexuality and homosociality.]

Can anyone else corroborate?

Gene Holland


   

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