[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!
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Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
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