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  • Odsotni spol : Marx, Freud in drugi
    Bahovec, Eva D.
    The Absent Sex: Marx, Freud and the Other/s: In the founding texts of the Western canon the categories "woman" and "the female sex" appear as something derived and thus secondary and posterior; the ... problem stems from the fact that the male is set up as a criterion, a privileged model, a norm, according to which the female is to be measured. The paper first argues that on the mathodological level, thi is true also for Marx and Freud, who undaubtedly have an immanent place in the history of feminism. The discussion then focuses upon the relationship between the biological, the social and the norm in Georges Canguilhem, in feminist theory a virtually absent author. However, despite the fact that Canguilhem subverts the relationship between the primal and the derived, the error and the norm, the monster and the human, he does not relate the discussion of reproduction and monstrosity to the very problem of sexual difference, and hence for him the category of "woman" simply cannot figure as a problem. The paper ends with a conclusion that in both "forerunners" of contemporary feminist theory, in Marx and in Freud, as well as in Canguilhem's epistemology of the sciences, the relationship between the biological and the social and the category "sex" remains unexplained, whereas the "woman" is still the "the absent sex".
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 1998
    Language - slovenian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 463447