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Taking Seriously Dual Systems and Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Cheshire Calhoun
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Abstract

In response to Ann Ferguson and Claudia Card, I argue that Gayle Rubin's analysis of sex-gender systems supports the hypothesis that heterosexual domination is a distinctive axis of oppression. While gender domination places women in disad-vantaged positions, heterosexual domination displaces lesbians and gay men from society. In response to Chris Cuomo, I argue that same-sex desire is part of lesbians’ gender ambiguity; but I agree that nvy work has underemphasized sexual desire.

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Author Meets Critics Panel: APA Eastern Division Meeting, 1996
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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998, pp. 224 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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