Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: Feminist theory, in both its identity-based and its anti-essentialist versions, has denied the validity of transgendered people's experience.Rather, feminism needs to retheorize its understanding of identity in light of new insights offered by transgendered people's experience into the structural and systemic production of "liminal" or "boundary" conditions within political communities.RESUME La theorie feministe dans ses deux versions 1'une basee sur l'identit£ et l'autre anti-essentialiste a rejete la validite de 1'experience des transgenderistes.Le feminisme devrait plutot remettre en theorie sa comprehension de 1'identitd en tenant compte de 1'experience des transgenderistes dans la production structurelle et systemique des conditions "limitrophes" ou "frontieres" au sein des communautes politiques.
Author: Eleanor Macdonald
Institutions: Queen's University, Queens University
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1568823533