The postfeminist Queerization: From trans/gender Constructivism to the Elimination of Women

  • María Binetti María Binetti Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UBA CONICET

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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María Binetti, María Binetti Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UBA CONICET

María Binetti
Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género,
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UBA
CONICET

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Published

2019-12-26

How to Cite

Binetti, M. (2019). The postfeminist Queerization: From trans/gender Constructivism to the Elimination of Women. La Aljaba. Segunda Época. Revista De Estudios De La Mujer, 23. Retrieved from https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/aljaba/article/view/4237

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