The Gendered Ontology of Multitude

Political Theory

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 357-364

  Hawkesworth, Mary ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 43249153948     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591706286465     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. A term suggested by Gayle Rubin in “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex,” in Rayna Reiter, ed. Toward an Anthropology of Women (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975)
2. and developed by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia, 1985), homosocial refers to the bonds, often charged with eroticism, that connect men in ways that empower them socially. According to Sedgwick, these “social bonds between persons of the same sex” constitute “the affective or social force, the glue … that shapes an important relationship” (pp. 1–2).