Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 25 No. 4, 2005.
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TRANSGENDERISM (AND TRANSSPECIESISM) ALSO AS A UTOPIAN PROJECTION
SUZANA MARJANIĆ
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The text questiones the idea of transgenderism, or more specifically, the positioning of the androgynous paradigm that is ecological (in contrast to the tribal matriarchal paradigm and the hierarchical patriarchal paradigm, as the mentioned differential terms of reference of the three paradigms were defined by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson), as a possible Utopian projection into the future; as a radical NO to the present that still has not, regardless of whether we like it or not, fulfilled the possibility of legal and political status for all forms of life.
Naturally enough, apart from an interpretation of the androgyne as the archetype of the unity of oppossing energies (the androgynous soul in, for example, June Singer's definition), I also take into account Kari Weil's interpretation of the androgyne, according to whose unmasking the androgyne also figures as the misogynous ideal, a construct of the patriarchal ideosphere. Or, as Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar have proposed - the alternative term gynandrous (whole), since the very structure of the lexeme androgyny reflect the power of the male symbolic vision over the female view of the Universe.
Under the circumstances in Croatia, transgenderism is perceived in the text as an ignored state of affairs, since intersexuals (hermaphrodites) are not categorised in the »Statute on the Structure and Method of Work of the Expert Opinion Component in Implementing Rights from Social Welfare and Other Rights According to Specific Regulations«, which simply means that they have no specific rights under the present social welfare system.
By way of the identity of the androgyne (he/she androgyne) as a third gender, which unifies the categories of masculinity and femininity, or, more specifically, by the ecological androgynous paradigm, I consider the attempt to delete the dichotomy of neglected Nature (woman, non-Europeans, animals, the working class) versus culture (man, Europeans, people, the upper and middle classes), as explicated, for example, by the feminist biologist Lynda Birke, and the attempt to achieve a bioethical encounter between the human animal and the “nonhuman” animal, which I define conditionally with the term transspeciesism, which covers the ethical negation of speciesism. Namely, within the framework of eco/feminist theory, the socio-cultural anthropologist Barbara Noske (1989) was one of the first to put forward the question of the human relation towards other animals, demanding the establishment of an anthropology of animals, since – even now – only an (anthropocentric) anthropology of human exist in relation to animals.
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2462
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2005.
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