作为表意机制的性别

Gender as an Ideographic Mechanism

将性别建构为一个分析范畴,虽然是20世纪80年代以来女性主义在学术领域的重大理论突破,却没有真正改变性别相对于阶级、种族等统摄性分析范畴的弱势地位。职此之故,重估性别与阶级、种族等分析范畴之间的关系,依然是当代女性主义理论亟待解决的关键问题。实际上,与复杂多元、变动不居的阶级、种族范畴不同,性别是一种相对稳定的意识形态表意机制,既作为与阶级、种族并置的意识形态机器,询唤并型塑符合社会要求的性别主体,又作为能够反映一切社会差序结构的基本原型,用以表征阶级、种族等意识形态的自然性与普遍性,性别在意识形态运行中所具有的这种统合一切差序的结构性功能即是性别的表意机制。

Constructing gender as an analytical category,although a significant theoretical breakthrough for feminism in the academic field since the 1980s,has not truly altered the gender's disadvantaged position compared to class,race,and other encompassing analytical categories.Therefore,reevaluating the relationship between gender and class,race,and other analytical categories remains a crucial issue in contemporary feminist theory.In fact,unlike the complex,diverse,and ever-changing categories of class and race,gender is a relatively stable ideological ideographic mechanism.It serves as an ideological apparatus parallel to class and race,both shaping gender subjects that conform to societal demands and reflecting the fundamental prototype of all social hierarchical structures.Gender represents the naturalness and universality of ideological categories like class and race,playing a structurally functional role in unifying all hierarchical differences in the operation of ideology.This integration of all hierarchical differences within the ideological operation is the ideographic mechanism of gender.