Sex, Gender, and Devotional Desire: Refiguring Bodily Identities in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Discourse

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Barbara A. Holdrege
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Abstract

Many of the debates among theorists of the body in feminist and gender studies center on the gendered body and its relation to the sexed body, with the validity of the sex/gender distinction itself a topic of contention. On the one hand, feminist advocates of social constructionism tend to distinguish between sex and gender, in which sex (male or female) is identified with the biological body as a “natural” datum and gender (masculine or feminine) is a second-order sociocultural construction that is superimposed as an ideological superstructure on this “natural” base. On the other hand, feminist advocates of sexual difference such as Judith Butler call into question the sex/gender distinction and insist that the sexed body, like gender, is socially constructed. This article brings these contemporary feminist interlocutors into conversation with sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava authorities who developed a distinctive discourse of embodiment in which they frame the categories of sex and gender in relation to devotional desire in their ontological theories of bodily identities. The Gauḍīya discourse of embodiment explodes notions of the relationship between embodiment, personhood, materiality, and gender on both the human and divine planes and challenges prevailing body theories by positing bodies beyond matter, personhood beyond matter, and gender beyond sex.

性、性别与虔诚的欲望:重塑高迪雅唯识论述中的身体身份
在女权主义和性别研究中,身体理论家们的许多争论都集中在性别化身体及其与性别身体的关系上,而性/性别区分的有效性本身也是一个争论的话题。一方面,社会建构主义的女性主义倡导者倾向于区分性与性别,将性(男性或女性)与作为 "自然 "数据的生物身体相联系,而性别(男性或女性)则是作为意识形态上层建筑叠加在这一 "自然 "基础上的二阶社会文化建构。另一方面,朱迪斯-巴特勒(Judith Butler)等主张性差异的女权主义者质疑性/性别的区别,并坚持认为有性的身体与性别一样,都是社会建构的。本文将这些当代女权主义对话者与 16 世纪的高迪雅唯识学权威进行对话,后者发展出了一套独特的体现论述,在其身体身份的本体论理论中,他们将性和性别的范畴与虔诚的欲望联系起来。高迪亚派的体现论揭示了体现、人格、物质性和性别之间在人类和神灵层面上的关系,并通过提出超越物质的身体、超越物质的人格和超越性的性别来挑战流行的身体理论。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1997, the International Journal of Hindu Studies is committed to publishing excellent scholarship on well-established topics in Hindu Studies, to fostering new work in neglected areas, and to stimulating alternative perspectives as well as exchange of information on a wide range of issues. The Journal supports critical inquiry, hermeneutical interpretive proposals, and historical investigation into all aspects of Hindu traditions.    While committed to publishing articles that will advance scholarship in any discipline relevant to Hindu Studies, the Journal is especially interested in areas of research that have cross-disciplinary relevance or new implications for this emerging field of scholarly interest. Submissions of a comparative or theoretical nature in every discipline in the humanities and social sciences will receive serious and respectful consideration. Each submission to the Journal will receive double-blind review.
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