Nemoč feminizma

Perpar, Jure (author)

The structurally conditioned phallocentric patterns of social interactions that dominate today deprive »women« of access to genuine social and representative power. Feminist movements struggle to ensure greater power for »women«, yet still fail to eliminate social discrimination among genders/sexes. One reason for this is that some continue to embrace the reproductive episteme of the patriarchal/phallocentric culture or sexual essentialism. Those movements whose analyses exceed the reproductive episteme are also clinging to »superstructural strategies« that are unable to provide adequate results in the current stage of biotechnological development. The article argues that the questions of reproductive essentialism and gender/sexual antagonism are not solvable on the level of the social superstructure. However, we can probably move beyond both essentialism and antagonism if a new paradigm that builds on scientific breakthroughs in reproductive biotechnologies emerges on the level of the social base. Such a new paradigm could create the conditions for doing away with the structures/practices that support reproductive essentialism and sexual antagonism, but also binary sexual/gender representations, i.e., the conditions for de-signification, in the social superstructure. A breakthrough like this would introduce new (e.g., agamic) reproductive modes that transgress the hitherto-possible human reproduction methods

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: spolna bipolarnost, resignifikacija, materinstvo, reprodukcijska biotehnologija, designifikacija
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 138–155, 169
• Numbering: Letn. 59, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138697
• UDC: 305:141.72
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: : 10.51936/tip.59.1.138-155
• COBISS.SI-ID: 108533507
• Publication date in RUL: 09.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: English

Abstract

Prevladujoči strukturno pogojeni falocentrični vzorci družbenih interakcij »ženskam« še vedno onemogočajo dostop do realne in reprezentacijske moči. Feminističnim gibanjem, ki so ujeta v spolni esencializem in/ali reprodukcijsko epistemé patriarhalne/ falocentrične kulture, (nepresenetljivo) spodleti odprava družbene diskriminacije med »spoli«. Enako tistim, katerih analize sežejo onkraj spolnega esencializma in reprodukcijske epistemé, a se oklepajo »superstrukturnih« strategij, ki na današnji stopnji (bio)tehnološkega razvoja ne dajo zadovoljivih rezultatov. V članku postavim tezo, da spolnoidentitetni antagonizem in vprašanje spolnega/reprodukcijskega esencializma v »družbeni nadstavbi« nista razrešljiva in da je razgradnja strukturno pogojenih diskriminacijskih praks, vključno z razveljavitvijo binarnih spolnoidentitetnih reprezentacij, mogoča (a ne samoumevna), če v znanstveno- -tehnološkem delu »družbene baze« nastopi nova paradigma, pogojena z znanstvenim prebojem na področju reprodukcijskih biotehnologij

• Keywords: sexual bipolarity, resignification, motherhood, reproductive biotechnology, designification