![]() ![]() I will use this reconstruction to bring out two key elements of French materialist feminism: (1) its proposal that gender can and should be abolished (2) its – related – denial that sex division is a biological reality. ![]() In this article I will take issue with their position on sex, by way of an initial reconstruction of the history of the English-speaking feminist reception of French materialist feminism. The French materialist feminists – Christine Delphy, Monique Wittig, Colette Guillaumin and Nicole-Claude Mathieu, among others – are among the earliest and best-known exponents of this line. The incomplete materialism of French materialist feminism Alison stoneĪccording to one important and influential line of feminist interrogation of the category of sex, we only believe that there are two biological sexes because our thought and perception are constrained by the two-gender social system under which we currently live. ![]()
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