that relationship of dependency ought to be governed by what our former colleague, martha fineman called the sexual family. that is the root of the problem, but it's perfectly consistent with the logic of neoliberal capital and the contract into which those persons who get married -- whatever their sexual ore yep attention, belong. alongside that, though, were also seeing what i think might be called as the emergence of a new sexual orientation. you have homonorm different and heterosexual normativity. and normal with marital status of whether you're gay or lesbian or heterosexual. i think a moment of sexual re-alignment which in many ways corresponds to the moments of racial re-alignment we have seen in the age of neoliberalism. so, i think it's a difficult but important question that you ask, but we have to see the connections between the national, the transnational, and global capital under neoliberal jim. >> if i can add one thing. one chapter in the book, in the historical section, talks about why northern soldiers or missionaries or others were forcing fairly newly freed people to