General status of gender relations vs. Quibbles

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 24 14:44:59 PST 1999


Seth Ackerman wrote:


>So, Doug. Are you saying gender phenomena are *always*
>social/discursive phenomena, and never grounded in some unalterable Real?

Never say never. I'll just say that I get very suspicious when people invoke biology: I think it's highly likely that a rhetorical trick is being played. And there's an awful lot of the "Real" that is quite alterable; even genes are activated and/or repressed by environmental stimuli.

Doug



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