Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Genderization (fwd)

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The excellent one to start with is Marxist feminist Gayle Rubin's  article
published in _Towards an Anthropology of Women_  "The Traffic in Women:
Political Economy of Sex". It offers a much better argument than the one
offered by Butler's metaphysical post-modernism..
Mine

>The sex/gender distinction (and the dialectic between them) was developed
>by anthropologists (who of course used language and so constructed their
>concepts "discursively"), many of whom were influenced by feminism.
>Unfortunately, I can't give you a specific reference, since my books are
>in >boxes...