Gender, Sex and Freedom
Testing the Theoretical Limits of the Twenty-First-Century 'Gender Wars' with Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone and Luce Irigaray
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4744780 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Nicholas (0000-0001-7432-1526), Sal Clark (0000-0002-9639-5400) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 354-371 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2023.0442 |
| OpenAlex | W4388761788 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Many Global North contexts are experiencing conflict in feminist discourses between supporters of trans and gender diverse self-identification and self-proclaimed 'gender critical' feminists who consider this to undermine feminist goals. We argue that the channelling of contemporary feminist discourse into defensive and oppositional channels has foreclosed the space for more nuanced and future-oriented, utopian thought around freedom from sex/gender, limiting the prospect of developing a coalition of actors focused not on difference, but rather on commonality. Putting classic feminist works by Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone and Luce Irigaray into dialogue, we consider an alternative approach to freedom premised on an ontology of potentiality combined with acceptance of the materiality of the binary gender hierarchy, that nonetheless remains utopian and open-ended, demonstrating the capacity to transcend these impasses and potentially overcome these divides
Aesthetics · Binary opposition · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Hierarchy · Political science · Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |