By Lynne Segal
Is heterosexual intercourse inherently destructive to ladies? this can be the valuable query of Straight Sex, Lynne Segal's account of twenty 5 years of feminist considering on sexuality. protecting the idea of sixties-era sexual liberationists, along the consequent passionate debates over intercourse and love inside of feminist and lesbian groups, Segal covers sure shifts towards better sexual conservatism within the eighties. Straight Sex examines an array of concerns, together with intercourse as a subversive task, the "liberated orgasm," intercourse suggestion literature, gender uncertainties, queer politics, anti-pornography campaigns and the increase of the ethical right.
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Taken together, differentiation and subordination would seem to yield hierarchy. Whereas Tocqueville describes the ways that the integrating tendencies of democracy complement the isolating tendencies of equality, in these texts it becomes a question of complementing the freedom and equivalence generated by capitalism with social hierarchy. However, I will argue, capitalism does not simply entail freedom and equivalence. In fact, it is precisely in generating and legitimating social hierarchy that “community” supplements (enables, fills a void in) capitalism.
But Putnam goes further, and this is the crucial point: he argues that the health of democratic states and economic prosperity both depend on social capital, saying, “The social capital embodied in norms and networks of civic engagement seems to be a precondition for economic development, as well as for effective government” (“Prosperous Community,” ). In arguing that economic progress (he means but doesn’t say capitalist economic progress) and “democracy” depend on community (or rather on the hegemony-producing functions of community), The Supplementarity of Community with Capital 13 he points to the supplementary, and not merely complementary, role that community plays in relation to capitalism, and thus begins to make my argument for me, although he does so as a fan of capitalism, where I will do so as a critic.
While Agamben claims that “[whatever being] is neither apathy nor promiscuity nor resignation” (), in working to evoke “the impotent omnivalence of whatever being” (), he excludes the possibility of articulating even contingent subjects and political goals. He celebrates the Tiananmen protests for “the relative absence of determinate contents in their demands (democracy and freedom are notions too generic and broadly defined to constitute the real object of a conflict . )” (). While I generally disagree with those who argue that poststructuralist theory promotes political passivity or paralyzing relativism, Nancy and Agamben would certainly seem to offer grist for that complaint since in fact they do quite explicitly promote passivity.