Sex and Social Organization

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This is a position paper that examines Ann Laura Stoler's work on sexuality and social systems in colonial Asia, pointing out how sexual ideas shaped ideas of men women and social roles where racial types belonged and the influence of eugenics on moral superiority. It then turns to John D'Emilio's paper on how capitalism permitted the expression of homosexuality leading to new social forms communities, as opposed to families.

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This paper discusses two well known scholars of sex in relation to social organization in Ann Laura Stoler's discussion of `Carnal Knowledge and Power' (1996) and John D'Emilio's 1992 article, `Capitalism and Gay Identity'. In both contributions the reader will find a highly theoretical approach to topics, of the kind that is interesting because the reader is forever thinking of exceptions, or noticing places where an argument may be too heavily made. Ann Laura Stoler, for instance, has set out to discuss connections between sex, imperialism, gender, race and morality across an enormous entity of `colonial Asia' that she seems to believe can be discussed as one.

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