Subject: Re: gender: can a woman have a male mind, would this make her identify withmale sexuality?
From: supaflu design studio (supaflu@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 12:58:55 CST
yes i do think it brings up the thing of transgender gain, sorry, i am
still stuck there. it's just we brought it up in a very sexuality way
before, looking at genitals. i am not talking about the gaze thing or the
feminist point.
>anne, i think this bring up the concept of transgender again, the possiblity
>of multiple and sometimes contradictory identifications? how do we define a
>male or female mind anyway? i'm a little tired of feminists arguing that
>women adopt the male gaze or male mind to gain subjectivity in a world that
>objectifies them. i mean, like, duh. the next thing is to ask how can we
>think about things like 'mind' 'subjectivity' 'presence' or absence for that
>matter, as categories around, between against gender binaries/boundaries? is
>this even possible given the fact that we are working within a very limited
>language structure?
>
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