> This will no doubt exasperate the Judy-haters, following Butler's in
> Bodies That Matter, it's interesting to watch how & when "biological"
> arguments are invoked - as a last ditch effort to limit the
> social/discursive analysis of social/discursive phenomena and ground
> them instead in some unalterable Real. That's just what Rob is doing
> here - resisting arguments based on gender (and class) relations and
> shifting attention to the realm of the gene. Last time I looked,
> genes couldn't talk, though lots of people profess to talk for them.
>
>
So, Doug. Are you saying gender phenomena are *always* social/discursive phenomena, and never grounded in some unalterable Real?
Seth