[DEBATE] : Zuma the proud polygamist, and me.

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 14:07:40 GMT 2008


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Dominic Tweedie
<dominic.tweedie at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about general paliandry rights?
>
>  Under the SA Constitution, it may be that such rights, or equivalent,
>  already exist, because if I am not mistaken there is a general
>  stipulation that "he" can be read as "she" in any South African law,
>  and vice versa.

Interesting.  Applying Raymond Williams' terminology, one might say
that the SA Constitution incorporates residual ("traditionally"
polygamous), dominant (heterosexually monogamous), and emergent
(homosexual + implicitly polyandrous?) ideologies all at once!
-- 
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>



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