The postfeminist Queerization: From trans/gender Constructivism to the Elimination of Women
Keywords:
Linguisticism, performativity, undecidability, sexual difference, ontology.Abstract
Queer theories emerge from postmodern nominalist constructivism under
the assumption that all things are discursive fictions, all ontology, a
substantialist and dualistic narrative, and there is nothing real outside of
socio-linguistic constructions and deconstructions. In the case of sexual
difference, queer theories assimilate it to the hetero-normative signifiers
of the old bio-political regime, and consequently abolished it by means
of an ideological operative that brings us today to a post-feminism without
women, where the speaking subjects arbitrarily techno-produce
their bodies and sexualities. Assuming some philosophical assumptions
of new material realisms, the present article aims at making visible the
hidden essentialism of postmodern constructivism, its barely disguised
femino-phobia and the effective violence—symbolic and non-symbolic—
that it implies for actual women, and feminist agenda.
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