Gender
Jan 04, 2005Are gender roles and differences fixed, once and for, all by biology? Or is gender socially constructed and culturally variable?
在某些圈子里,人们普遍认为性别是一个流动的光谱:人们可以在“非常女性化”和“非常男性化”之间的许多点上落点,而且他们落点的位置会随着时间的推移而变化。In thisProspectarticle, Julian Baggini provides his own tweak to this framework. He argues for gender viscosity instead of gender fluidity, where one moves along the gender spectrum over a longer time frame.
在提出这一论点时,他提出了一些有趣的主张,即性别既是生理上的,也是社会上的。对我来说,它提出了一个问题——在我们去掉社会构建的部分之后,性别还剩下多少?生理性别之间的差异真的会让我们更接近我们的性别分化系统吗?
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Are gender roles and differences fixed, once and for, all by biology? Or is gender socially constructed and culturally variable?
一些女权主义者认为,有一些女性特有的认知方式,而目前的科学研究没有认识到这些方式是有缺陷的。
What does gender have to do with science? The obvious answer is ‘nothing.’ Science is the epitome of an objective, rational, and disinterested enterprise.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual… it is safe to say that new ideas of gender and sexuality have broken into mainstream consciousness within the past few decades.
Are gender roles and differences fixed, once and for, all by biology? Or is gender socially constructed and culturally variable?
一些女权主义者认为,有一些女性特有的认知方式,而目前的科学研究没有认识到这些方式是有缺陷的。
What does gender have to do with science? The obvious answer is ‘nothing.’ Science is the epitome of an objective, rational, and disinterested enterprise.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual… it is safe to say that new ideas of gender and sexuality have broken into mainstream consciousness within the past few decades.
Comments(1)
Harold G. Neuman
Thursday, February 1, 2018 -- 8:44 AM
I read Mr. Baggini's accountI read Mr. Baggini's account/description of what he calls gender viscosity. Interesting. If we operate on the premise that gender is at least partially a social construct, it is pretty easy to see how perceptions of gender identity can and have changed over time. In my view, part of this has to do with the notion that we are less morally-bound by traditions and beliefs, particularly in societies where emphasis on these has eroded---if you do not like that word, then choose another you find less offensive. In any case, here in the west and in other modern cultures, there seems to be, more and more, an anything goes sort of approach to, well, anything. Experimentation is a popular way of saying: I can be anyone or anything I want and don't have to feel badly about my choices, as long as I am hurting no one else. That as-long-as gets increasingly vague with the passage of time and relaxation of constraints. Frame this any way you wish. As the Kinks put it in their immensely popular song, Lola, (and as it was similarly phrased in Baggini's Prospect piece): "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world...and so's my Lola. L-o-l-a Lola...") Anything goes.