I actually intently wanted to avoid creating any kind of spectrum or continuum with the terms and tried to set them down in an amorphous blob, because there is no coherent divide between the biological and the social.
All our concepts of the biological are formed through social constructs. I'm not saying there isn't a "real", just that our conceptions of the real are always going to be socially mediated.
Judi Butler for the win for taking the binary between essentialism and constructivism and wrestling it to the ground!
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Date: 2009-07-06 03:26 am (UTC)All our concepts of the biological are formed through social constructs. I'm not saying there isn't a "real", just that our conceptions of the real are always going to be socially mediated.
Judi Butler for the win for taking the binary between essentialism and constructivism and wrestling it to the ground!