Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.25595/279
Author(s)
Stammberger, Birgit
Book Title
Queer-Feministische Perspektiven auf Wissen(schaft)
Editor(s)
Behrens, Christoph
Zittlau, Andrea
Zittlau, Andrea
Place of publication
Rostock
Publisher
Universität Rostock
Year of publication
2017
Volume
1
ISBN
978-3-86009-480-8
Page reference
82-121
Language
deutsch
Abstract
This contribution argues that gender theory is based on constructivist epistemology and thus indebted to a hidden anthropocentrism and predictable schemata. Focusing on feminist materialism, I will show that materiality does not disappear in the sphere of discourse but has achieved a new conceptualization. The debates around this conceptualization are the basis for thinking about a materiality of knowledge whose own logic reveals the points of resistance of feminist criticism. Departing from the posthumanist concept of performativity, I will show that even de/constructivist approaches are based on schemata. With particular attention paid to the history of the sciences, I discuss that the life sciences can be understood au contraire as a reservoir to question gender binaries. An enriched understanding of biological-physical materiality can provide a corrective to current cultural theory and the social sciences. Finally, I will advance perspectives and possibilities of a critical posthumanism. The new materialim of feminist theory is not a fallback to deconstructivist theory approaches but is in serach for the critical potential in current posthumanist theories.
Subject
Konstruktivismus
Epistemologie
Geschlechterkonstruktion
Constructivist
Epistemology
Gender Theory
Life Sciences
New Materialism
Posthumanism
Epistemologie
Geschlechterkonstruktion
Constructivist
Epistemology
Gender Theory
Life Sciences
New Materialism
Posthumanism
Publication type
Sammelbandbeitrag
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