Animals without genitals
Race and transsubstantiation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4841628 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mel Y Chen (a Gender and Women's Studies, University of California at Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-297 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2010.529253 |
| OpenAlex | W2058477531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
How might one think about modes of trans-ness in conjunction with animality? “Trans-animality” can simultaneously refer to gender and species, while sexuality, geopolitics and race remain in full scope. This trans-generic thought piece invokes the theoretical lens of a Deleuzian “body without organs,” bringing into suggestive resonance several instances of cultural production from the last few decades of the twentieth century. Each discursive instance ostensibly opposes non-human animals to humans in ways that crucially, and perhaps unusually, implicate the presence or absence of sex: film (Oshima's Max, mon amour), contemporary art (Xu Bing), and language philosophy (J.L. Austin). I argue that each plumbs animals’ symbolic force as a third term, bearing its own particular imprint of racialization and sexualization in a shared era of geopolitical contestation and postcoloniality. In doing so, I consider the epistemological lessons made possible by thinking about trans-animality in terms of sex
Aesthetics · Geopolitics · Human sexuality · Political science · Racialization · Sexualization · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |