Beyond Gender(s)

Autor: Jean-Luc Nancy, Christine Irizarry
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: Bodies That Still Matter ISBN: 9789048552504
DOI: 10.5117/9789463722940_nancy01
Popis: The study of gender invites one to consider its prima materia, that is to say sex. Sex is the play of genders. They gender it – which is to say they proceed from it not as productions but as the expansion itself that it “is,” if this can be called “being,” grasped in its nonexistence or rather meontology. Sex brings forth emotions, motions, forms, figures, textures and flavors, wounds and pains – the effervescent expression of its nonidentity or pluriidentity. This difference to oneself and the dissemination and multiplying effect of sex constitutes the deepest and most difficult lesson in the study of genders, which is far from being finished, though this has less to do with study, perhaps, than with an experience both meditative and amazed of what has always already pushed and driven us through all possible genders outside any kind of gender, assignation, and identification.
Databáze: OpenAIRE