Some people think that the androgyny concept doesn't go far enough; because androgyny still reproduces elements of the old false split of femininity and masculinity, it should be abandoned. What we need is not to construct combinations of two false concepts, but to go back to - and forward to - a situation with no split in the first place, a place without a gender dichotomy. The point must be made that keeping the masculine and the feminine apart and separate is what is difficult and unnatural, while keeping them together is simple and natural. We must thus move beyond androgyny, in order to overcome the cultural and social schizophrenia of gender dualism.
So, I'm interested in anything that blurs, transforms or recreates gender, puts a new perspective on gender, or just any weird ideas or expressions of gender. You may thus conclude that I want to deconstruct gender - but that is at best a half-truth, because I'm even more interested in reconstructing gender. Or, more precisely: I'm interested the deconstruction of the current arbitrary and collectivist gender bi-polarization ideology, thus opening the path for reconstruction(s) of gender, in the form of 5 billion or more unique gender identitities. And I'm collecting links to all kind of stuff about this, and that's what this page is about. You'll find the links below. I provide a growing and shifting context of elements; you'll have to evaluate and integrate them yourselves. You must be your own gender dialectician. And if you come up with something new, insightful, creative, weird or otherwise interesting, let me know, and I'll add it to this page.
So far I've only talked about gender (the social and cultural aspects of gender identity), but many people apply all the above to sex (the biological aspects of gender identity) as well. You'll find links to those ideas - and realities - too.
So, let's do it. And if you think you know about an URL that ought to be included here, do tell.
A Martian's View of Gender
(A similar version of the Martian anthropologist.)
The
Angel's Dictionary
(Extend your gender vocabulary; know more
and see more)
Vive les Differences!
(Thomas Gramstad examines the Orwellian, collectivist nature of a
well-known and overused catch-phrase - and how to recast it in a way
that promotes rather than hinders individualism)
Julie Waters' Gender
issues page
(A great nexus, with a lot of controversial links)
Voice of the
Shuttle Gender Studies Page
(Lots of academic links)
Polymorph
(A
novel; cyberpunk, horror, genders, sexualities)
Manifesto for Humans
- Re-engendering Social Science
(Donna Haraway-inspired)
Future of Sexuality
(Daniel Ust on transhuman cyborg sexuality)
Swinburne's
Philosophy of Androgyny
(I'd call it religion, but anyway)
Androgyny
(A
brief historical summary of androgyny)
Alternative Sexualities
in Fantasy and Science Fiction Book List
(Not your ordinary family book guide)
Amazons
(Perhaps the most subversive gender radicals of them all)
Gender
Differences in Levels of Androgyny as Reflected in Styles of
Expression of Anger in Marital Relationships
(An interesting
Master's Thesis, and some good quotes too)
When
Boy Meets Girl
(The Discursive Styles of D.H. Lawrence and
Virginia Woolf)
Same Closet, Different Door: A
Heterosexual Sissy's Coming-Out Party
(Allan Hunter breaks
into new territory)
Joan
Jett
(If you need to ask, you need to look)
Androgyny and Fluidity of Gender in the Arts
(You can even learn this at the university)
Self Monitoring and Sex
Roles in Theatre Groups
(This paper is excellent for ideas; e.g.,
theatre groups as androgynous task forces explored with the Bem Sex Role
Inventory)
Janet
Jackson
(Just Because)
The
Bloomsbury Group
(In more ways than one, these people
introduced concepts of androgyny and queeriness)
EBE Theory:
Exotic Becomes Erotic
(A Developmental Theory of Sexual Orientation,
developed by Daryl J. Bem)
The
Michel Foucault page
(The History of Sexuality)
Jaye
Davidson
(Gives a new meaning to the old adage of "the woman
behind the man")
Svedeka's Third Gender
page
(Ambigendereds: people (especially females) crossing gender
and sexuality boundaries, and remaining at the crossings)
"What's So Funny
About Bisexual Separatism?"
(Do find out)
Queer
Theory Explained
(Is gender and sexual orientation identity
or performance? Essence or action?)
Allucquere Rosanne
(Sandy) Stone
(Transgenderism & Technoculture)
The Intersex Society of North
America
(They publish a publication called
Hermaphrodites With an Attitude, oppose forced surgery on
intersexual children, and strive to carve out a sex/gender identity
for themselves, outside the man-woman dualism)
The Tilda
Swinton Lovers Page
(She starred in Orlando, and now in
Female Perversions)
Center for Gender
Sanity
(A refuge from male/female dichotomies, sex-based
stereotypes, and other gender madness...)
Androgynous nation
http://uk.geocities.com/androgynyuk/
(An activist & theatre group dedicated to androgynous ideals)
AVEN - Asexual Visibility and Education Network
http://www.asexuality.org/
(The Asexual Visibility and Education Network is devoted to
creating dialogue among and about the rapidly emerging group of
individuals who identify as asexual.)
Fra tvekjønnet
Kristus til unisex-mote
(Universitas)
Den lille forskjellen
blir mindre
(VG)
Last update: 17. august 2004
Genesis: 11. december 1997
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