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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| Published in: | Image & text no. 35; pp. 1 - 5 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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16.08.2021
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| ISSN: | 1021-1497, 2617-3255 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1021-1497 2617-3255 |
| DOI: | 10.17159/2617-3255/2021/n35a1 |