Gender Before the Gender Turn

Pub Date : 2022-04-05 DOI:10.1353/dia.2021.0001
A. Wilson
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Abstract:The “gender turn” in feminist thought describes the 1980s shift from a focus on women within male-dominated systems of power to poststructural theories of subject formation. But how did gender become available for feminist thought in the first place? Following recent work that emphasizes the assembled nature of feminist genealogies (Hemmings 2011; Wiegman 2012), this essay treats gender as a cultural object in order to trace its entry into feminism. An origin of gender as a category of person well known to transgender studies lies in the psychomedical treatment of intersex and transgender patients in mid-century American clinics. Yet by tracking the term, we also find a plurality of uses of gender that influenced feminist discourse, including the (technically mistaken) substitution of gender for sex. Radical intellectuals exploring vocabularies for anti-essentialist and anti-racist thought already experimented with gender before the gender turn.
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性别转变前的性别
摘要:女权主义思想中的“性别转向”描述了20世纪80年代从关注男性主导的权力体系中的女性向主体形成的后结构理论的转变。但是,性别最初是如何被女权主义思想所利用的呢?继最近的工作强调女权主义谱系的集合性之后(Hemmings 2011;Wiegman 2012),本文将性别视为一种文化对象,以追踪其进入女权主义的过程。性别作为跨性别研究中众所周知的一类人的起源在于本世纪中期美国诊所对双性人和跨性别患者的心理医学治疗。然而,通过追踪这个词,我们也发现了影响女权主义话语的性别的多种用法,包括(技术上错误的)用性别代替性。激进的知识分子探索反本质主义和反种族主义思想的词汇,在性别转变之前就已经对性别进行了实验。
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