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...women and sexual minorities have been excluded from it. Capitalism and the Enlightenment have made women, gay men and lesbians more visible, but they have not allowed them to speak fully. And as Ambinder's statement that "Harvard needs fewer English Ph.D.'s who study sex and gender" implies, maybe they still do not have that right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...response to Marc Ambinder's "Here Come the Gender Theorists," (Opinion, March 11, 1999), I would like to point out Ambinder's basic misunderstanding of gender theory. Deconstructive gender theory, which includes the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, but also scholars such as Diana Fuss, Eve Sedgwick and Kaja Silverman to name a few, examines the social meanings attached to categories of masculinity and femininity. It does not deny that anatomical sex determines whether one is male or female but suggests that the value placed on these categories is culturally determined. In the first page of Bodies That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theory Misunderstood | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...Gender is linked to both biology and culture, and, whatever the exact relationship is, it is not a "natural" or inherent property of individuals. In demanding that women's studies concentrators take "a half-course in basic human physiology," Ambinder implies that biology is truth--that there are genes and enzymes that make people the way they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theory Misunderstood | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

However, such arguments do not explain why we value masculinity but not femininity; heterosexulity, but not homosexuality. In a society in which Ambinder considers women, gay men and lesbians as "oppressed peoples," gender theory demonstrates that such "oppression" has a social, rather than a fixed, biological basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theory Misunderstood | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...women and sexual minorities have been excluded from it. Capitalism and the Enlightenment have made women, gay men and lesbians more visible, but they have not allowed them to speak fully. And as Ambinder's statement that "Harvard needs fewer English Ph.D.'s who study sex and gender" implies, maybe they still do not have that right. JENNIFER E. MOON'99 March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theory Misunderstood | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

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