The Genesis of Gender
How are subjects formed ‘in-between’, or in excess of, the sum of the ‘parts’ of difference (usually intoned as race/class/gender, etc.)?
Homi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
Remember that many of the creation myths from our earlier ancestors—the indigenous, pre-colonized peoples from cultures around the world—painted a different picture of the origin of women and men, and their worth and roles. In many of those stories, neither sex was created to dominate the other. Both men and women shared the responsibility to help
... See moreElizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
I doubt online “gender” arguments will abate any time soon. The tussle between men and women is a culture war as old as humanity itself: men and women always need to find a way to live together, which means negotiating those ways our material interests and physical capacities align or exist in tension. With the wider world in flux, it’s hardly surp... See more
leaving behind the old archetypal accent on the biological role—to which, however, their psyches are still constitutionally bound.