On 7/28/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I grew up in that secretive time. You know people pass info around in various ways. At any rate if you have a reason like me to be interested in who is gay or not it's very interesting. I'm thinking of Tripp's the Homosexual matrix I read in the seventies which first informed me about world gay culture. It's part of trying to understand what things are really about. Being gay or queer as Yoshie like's to refer to, gives one a reason to know as much as possible because everything is so shadowy. I have to have a better understanding this Orientalism. Imposing a western otherness on Turkey? thanks,
Before the rise of capitalism, organizations of gendered divisions of labor and sexual roles were much more diverse than they are now. As capitalism has spread, an understanding of human beings in terms of homo/bi/hetero sexual identities, a late-19th century invention that first took roots among the bourgeois and petit-bourgeois in the West, has spread also, and now their counterparts in the rest of the world are beginning to adopt it, too. But that's not necessarily desirable development. Foucault didn't think so. Since the homo/bi/hetero model has yet to conquer the entire world, we have some time to question its value and develop an alternative model of sexual freedom. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
