- The Qulligan text begins with a claim about marriage, that instead of it being an exchange between a man and a woman, it is an exchange between two men, using the woman as an object. Her feeings about her place in this structure are ignored, as it is ultimately a fixed structure. I had never thought of marriage from this view, but it makes complete sense, espeacially when Sedgewick calls it a homosocial connection. I found that especially interesting that a homosocial connection has exsisted and uncovered in each of our sections of study. This reveals more largely that sexuality is rooted in men and the transfer of power between men.
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