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What are you currently reading?
Mister D Nomms:
I have just finished my Ann Coulter collection and I'm about to order her newest book.
Welu:
Still reading The Coffin Dancer. Well, I stopped reading because I would read it in between classes. Then when I was sick my eyes were too messed up to read for long.
Delight to get World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide for Christmas from my brothers. I'd been looking at the books for ages but just never got them.
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 28 Dec 2011, 20:28 ---Right now I am reading a book of essays on French materialist feminism. It is a lot. I was certainly aware of the notion of gender as a social construction, and even used it as the basis of my understanding about "male" and "female", but the first two authors argued that sex is also a social construction. wait, what?... I think I buy it, but it is still a lot to wrap one's head around. Just finished the third essay, which gave three ways to look at the relationship between sex and gender. I thought I had handle on the issues surrounding sex and gender, but really I have had my mind blown. I have never put this much thought into it before, and I was nearly a gender studies minor.
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I'm curious - how do they claim that? It seems like it's a fairly obvious trait one is born with, unless the authors are pulling intersexuality into the mix.
lepetitfromage:
Just finished reading Damned....it was ridiculously fucking twisted but definitely an interesting read. Took me longer to get into it than his other books, but gets much meatier as you go on. (here's a tip- don't read it stoned unless you are interested in a complete mindfuck)
I think I need something lighter for my next read.....
Papersatan:
The arguments are kind of complected. I tried to write out a summary, but when I made it to the second page of a 11pt Word doc I decided that was no good.
The gist of it is:
Author 1: Categories of oppression arise out of the oppression. Sex is only a category into which we sort ourselves because we live in a hierarchy which places one sex over the other.
Author 2: The development of Gender gave us a way to understand the social differences between the sexes, but we somehow forgot to question the legitimacy of the sexes in the first place. Mostly this is because it is scary to imagine a world where there are no sex categories, since we base so much of our personal and social understanding on them. We haven't actually proved in anyway that sex division is natural or that it comes before gender division. We need to examine why we think that sex is natural and that is precedes gender and why we think that just because there is more than one type of something that they are necessarily hierarchical.
The idea is that just because there are different traits doesn't mean that people have to be categorized by them and the fact that we categorize ourselves by whether we have a penis or not is social.
I actually am interested in talking about this more. The book is available online for free. If other people are game we could start a DISCUSS thread about it maybe?
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