As it happens, two different anarchist publications are running articles I’ve written on marriage and monogamy. I didn’t write the pieces at the same time, or try to coordinate the publishing, or anything. Sometimes things just work out like that.
The first is a long essay in Fifth Estate, examining some comments Foucault made in interviews back in 1981 and ’82. It’s called “Sexual Liberation and the Possibilities of Friendship: Foucauldian Proposals and Anarchist Elaborations.”
The second is a review of Jenny Block’s book Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage (Seal Press, 2008). It’s titled “Saving Marriage from Itself,” and appears in the Spring-Summer issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.
Those who read both will notice that I like Foucault’s position a lot better than I like Block’s.
Neither article is online.