PHIL 2125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Grammatical Gender, Social Progress, Herculine Barbin
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Gender masculine, feminine, in between, none, by choice, socially constructed/constituted. Attempts to analyze beauvoir, wittig, and foucault to determine the relationship between sex and. Beauvoir sex is not freely chosen and gender is freely enacted gender. If we choose gender, then we have to occupy a space outside gender. Foucault no such thing as natural sex sex. We become a gender through a . We become a gender since it"s impossible to become the body that you already have. Natural body (sex) vs. acculturated body (gender) Wittig questions the distinction between sex and gender. All agree that gender is socially constructed, but the question lies within the social construction of. Cartesian dualism sets up the notion of dyads and oppositions. Dualism is the separation of mind and body. Historically, women are bodied while men have the potential to transcend the body. A genderless space is not a stable situation (i. e. parents raising children as genderless)
