This article shows how,using the figure of the continuum,gender pluralities can be captured in their actually existing diversity and thus be detached from a still powerful and often stereotyping binary constructedness...This article shows how,using the figure of the continuum,gender pluralities can be captured in their actually existing diversity and thus be detached from a still powerful and often stereotyping binary constructedness.Gender as a continuum encompasses the four dimensions physical,psychological,social and sexual or:body,feeling,behavior,and desire.It will be demonstrated that all of these dimensions are not clearly separable within themselves and from each other.In the second part of the article,concrete everyday examples and legal debates are discussed from the perspective of the continuum.Thus,we are free to consider differences and similarities between and within the different gender groups in all their diverse shapes and manifestations.The question of what we are speaking about when we are speaking about gender will be answered with a clear“We are speaking about us as individuals and us as a society”.The simple reversion of this correlation will lead to the question:“Do we have to speak about gender when we are speaking about ourselves?”.This question will be answered with a clear“No”,if the normality of plurality and diversity also includes the negation,the absence of gender.展开更多
This article shows,on the one hand,how the figure of the Continuum can describe pluralities not only in the realm of sex/gender,but also in that of migration,using the four dimensions of the Continuum:physical/body/ma...This article shows,on the one hand,how the figure of the Continuum can describe pluralities not only in the realm of sex/gender,but also in that of migration,using the four dimensions of the Continuum:physical/body/matter―psychological/feeling/experience―social/behavior―sexual/desire.The figure of the Continuum can resolve binary and bipolar orders by overcoming the virulent power of the poles“male-female”which are still considered to frame the gender order to this days.In the same way,the bipolar,antagonistic,and dichotomous juxtaposition between migrant and non-migrant will be released from a binary constriction using the figure of the Continuum,as well as the diametric opposition within different forms,different trajectories of,and different reasons for migration.On the other hand,the article shows how natural such de-binarizations are or how pluralizations are if one looks to quantum logic and explains how the“as well as”,the end of the exclusionary opposition of“0:1”,superpositions and overlays as well as repetitions are of central significance for quantum physics.Thus,the article can come to the conclusion that,just as in the quantum logic of physics,the figure of the Continuum contains a chance for a new and broader humanism,which considers the human as a human,with all their diversities,potentialities,and the inviolability of human dignity.展开更多
文摘This article shows how,using the figure of the continuum,gender pluralities can be captured in their actually existing diversity and thus be detached from a still powerful and often stereotyping binary constructedness.Gender as a continuum encompasses the four dimensions physical,psychological,social and sexual or:body,feeling,behavior,and desire.It will be demonstrated that all of these dimensions are not clearly separable within themselves and from each other.In the second part of the article,concrete everyday examples and legal debates are discussed from the perspective of the continuum.Thus,we are free to consider differences and similarities between and within the different gender groups in all their diverse shapes and manifestations.The question of what we are speaking about when we are speaking about gender will be answered with a clear“We are speaking about us as individuals and us as a society”.The simple reversion of this correlation will lead to the question:“Do we have to speak about gender when we are speaking about ourselves?”.This question will be answered with a clear“No”,if the normality of plurality and diversity also includes the negation,the absence of gender.
文摘This article shows,on the one hand,how the figure of the Continuum can describe pluralities not only in the realm of sex/gender,but also in that of migration,using the four dimensions of the Continuum:physical/body/matter―psychological/feeling/experience―social/behavior―sexual/desire.The figure of the Continuum can resolve binary and bipolar orders by overcoming the virulent power of the poles“male-female”which are still considered to frame the gender order to this days.In the same way,the bipolar,antagonistic,and dichotomous juxtaposition between migrant and non-migrant will be released from a binary constriction using the figure of the Continuum,as well as the diametric opposition within different forms,different trajectories of,and different reasons for migration.On the other hand,the article shows how natural such de-binarizations are or how pluralizations are if one looks to quantum logic and explains how the“as well as”,the end of the exclusionary opposition of“0:1”,superpositions and overlays as well as repetitions are of central significance for quantum physics.Thus,the article can come to the conclusion that,just as in the quantum logic of physics,the figure of the Continuum contains a chance for a new and broader humanism,which considers the human as a human,with all their diversities,potentialities,and the inviolability of human dignity.
