feminisms-3

feminisms-3内容摘要：

 Sex/Gender hierarchy (see page 39 of our textbook) – categories are  manmade and thus arbitrary and limiting.  shown as “natural”  gender construction  gender not bound up with sexual difference  gender as “a symbolic system or a system of meaning” (de Lauretis 1987 5) Gender/Sex/Sexuality  Sex/Gender hierarchy (2) – Sexuality – also a construction, and hierarchical (ref. Foucault History of Sexuality):  Arbitrary construction of „reality‟: . „sodomite‟ (a temporary deviation)。 homosexuality –coined in 1869 (a species)  “perversion” – socially marginal, but “discursively central,” so that the control (discipline and surveillance) of our sexual/bodily behaviors are justified. (. the doctor‟s decision of the baby‟s sexuality, morning examination, discourse on masturbation) Different feminist positions in the Essentialism Constructivism continuum  Liberalism: equality between men and women in the public sphere (definitions unchanged)  Radical feminism: freeing women‘s bodies from patriarchal constraints and oppression (―woman‖ redefined)  French feminism: write from the body, feminist writings not limited to women. (femi。