“Gender”: We Used to Love You So Much...
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This article presents some reflections on the development of the category of “gender” in Argentina during the 1990s, in the context of the feminist debate between the approaches of equality and sexual difference. It critically reviews some assumptions underlying this confrontation, especially those related to the accusations directed at the perspective of sexual difference.
It then analyzes some limitations of the category of gender, as well as its uses and extensions, through case studies of organizations belonging to three social movements in the country: trade unionism, human rights, and environmentalism. In general terms, an important dissemination of the category can be observed, as well as its considerable ubiquity and polysemy.
Finally, the article discusses the contributions that the category of “sexual difference” could offer for analyzing and understanding women’s actions in a complex way, especially through an approach to the dimension of the unconscious and to new epistemological proposals for thinking about feminist subjects. Nevertheless, sexual difference is not considered an alternative for replacing the category of gender, which needs to be redefined.
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