Feminism And Intersexuality; A response to Myra J. Hird’s ‘Gender’s Nature’  

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Morland, Iain

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 2 no. 3 (Dec. 2001), page 362-366.
Topik: Dichotomized; Idealized; and Created by surgeons; Genitals mean gender.
Fulltext: 362.pdf (26.92KB)

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‘Genitals mean gender’: is this the same as asserting that sex means gender? The space between sex and gender has been a crucial position for feminist agency and theory, as Myra J. Hird underscored throughout her recent article in Feminist Theory (2000). But could there also be differences between sex and genitalia? Apparently not: surely a body’s sex actually is – at least in part – its genitalia. Think, for example, of surgery on transsexual bodies (Garber, 1989). The surgeon’s knife creates a sex that matches the patient’s gender. To be sure, the knife does not alter genes or hormones, but by rearranging the patient’s genitals, it makes a fundamental difference to their sex. In this regard, while such procedures undoubtedly show that ‘genitals mean gender’, they also show that this equation is dependent upon a foregone equivalence between genitals and sex. If you alter the patient’s genitalia, you alter their sex.

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