As my epigraph from Jeanette Winterson’s Gut Symmetries shows, when two women and a man are involved in a triangle of desire, the women’s relationship is commonly one of tension and jealousy as they compete for the man’s attentions. (Winterson 16) THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGLE HAS LONG BEEN A POPULAR ABSTRACTION FOR human relationships of desire.
In curved space, the angles over-add themselves and parallel lines always meet. Unfortunately, Euclidean theorems work only if space is flat. The shape is beguiling and it could be understood as a new geometry of family life. Everyone knows the score, and the women are held in tension, away from one another. In Euclidean geometry the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees and parallel lines never meet. KING University of Mississippi Valerie Martin’s Property and the Failure of the Lesbian Counterplot If you want to know how a mistress marriage works, ask a triangle. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ĪMY K.
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