Themed Section Editorial

The diversity of the articles included in this special issue attests to the ongoing relevance of gender as a crucial determinant of individual and social identity, a key component of political engagement, and a multidimensional field of scholarship. Gender is also a core aspect of dis/positionality,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Image & text H. 35; S. 1 - 5
Hauptverfasser: Byrne, Deirdre, Gray, Chantelle
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 16.08.2021
ISSN:1021-1497, 2617-3255
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Zusammenfassung:The diversity of the articles included in this special issue attests to the ongoing relevance of gender as a crucial determinant of individual and social identity, a key component of political engagement, and a multidimensional field of scholarship. Gender is also a core aspect of dis/positionality, by which we mean the intersections of gender, race, class, human and physical geographies, and any other aspects of identities that are 'markers of relational positions rather than essential qualities' (Maher & Tetreault 1993:118; see also Alcoff 1988; Benard 2016; Darling-Wolf 1998). By emphasising gender as productive, plural and constitutive of the dis/positionality of a subject, rather than a quintessential, intrinsic and static constituent of the subject per se, these articles aim to dispel the notion that subjectivity is 'universal', and that gender is in any sense binary.
ISSN:1021-1497
2617-3255
DOI:10.17159/2617-3255/2021/n35a1