Marigris’s Reviews > Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence > Status Update

"Economically disadvantaged, women—whether waitresses or professors—endure sexual harassment to keep their jobs and learn to behave in a complaisantly and ingratiatingly heterosexual manner because they discover this is their true qualification for employment, whatever the job description."

"I am suggesting that heterosexuality, like mother-hood, needs to be recognized and studied as a political institution-- even, or especially, by those individuals who feel they are, in their personal experience, the precursors of a new social relation between the sexes."
JODER🚬