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GENDER-IZATION
By Stefan Stefanov, a. ... performance of gender, matters are given so much notice that it is impossible for one to spend a single minute of one’s life within any type of social structure without these being concerned. ... ) insurance, implicitly or explicitly, some manifestation of gender and sexual attitude is to be observed. ... True, gender (performance) is biologically determined and destined but isn’t the occupation with all these issues, in any way, a clear indication of an overdue attention focusing, i. ...
Most of them will never grow up (in a way other than the physical or basically social) to fully comprehend the meaning of sex and gender and the role of it in our/their lives. ...
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The involvement of our civilization with gender/sex is apparent in all the means of communication of it. ... Both being humans, their lives are underlined by gender performance manifestation. ...
Biology especially: it is one field where sex and gender performance need be given a much more meticulous and comprehensive ‘treatment’. ... This, together with the overall lack of treating the idea of sexuality during the 1990s, not to mention the 1980s, usually resulted in poor realization of the person’s own gender belonging, sexual propriety and apprehension. ...
In my case, the pathway of comprehensive development of the issues of sex sometimes went along diverse routes; a variety of inferences were made, most of them valid, all of them leading to my present state of relation and apprehension of sex and gender. Hence, I find it relevant to give an account of the way, peculiar at times; I have perceived myself in connection to the matters and issues of sex and gender, with due comments, and an introductory part dealing with the processes of learning and studying. ...
Sex in being, and in being experienced, in belonging to it, in obliging or indulging into it, is GENDER.
I am now wondering if I can clearly recall the process of experiencing, discovering, comprehending (my) sex, which I shall call GENDER-IZATION. ... The thing I do remember from that stay (that I think is connected with my realizing {the starter of} sex and gender, of sex and of the sexual organs) is one of the medical procedures doctors performed on me. ...
I was about that same age when another remarkable event that I consider a part of GENDER-IZATION took place. ... ”
It feels strange, though, being gender-ized. ... Just as language is brought into existence in its being uttered, and literature in its being read, sexuality and gender understanding have no meaning whatsoever beyond their doing and making. ...
The question of defining and understanding sex and gender has been given a deconstructive approach in Terry Eagleton`s Literary Theory:
Woman is the opposite, the ‘other’ of man: she is non-man, defective man, assigned a chiefly negative value in relation to the male first principle. ...
How, then, do we know (does one know) that we are male or female in gender performance aspect? “One is one’s gender to the extent that one is not the other gender …” If the definition of one’s gender should be derived from this opposition, how can a statement like “You make me feel like a natural woman” be interpreted, hold true, and to what extent? ... Isn’t it necessary for one to have prior knowledge of one’s gender in order to be able to comprehend a similar statement from a representative of the other sex? ... So much I had wanted to be what she might eventually feel totally attracted to, so much wanted to be Her God, to be a super-human being; or, then, having failed, I so much wanted to erase her from my memory, to no longer wake up and fall asleep with the thought of her, to overwhelm that stifling urge that echoed within me… “Desire … expresses gender … gender reflects or expresses desire . ... Was it my ‘true self … reveal[ing] simultaneously or successively in sex, gender, and desire? ...
AGENDA: while writing this essay, among the many things I had produced and did not know where to insert, was a schematic drawing that dealt with the binaries I managed to define within the paradigm of Gender. ... The medium in gender is sex. It is during the sexual experience that gender is appropriated.
Approximate Word count = 8745
Approximate Pages = 35
(250 words per page double spaced)
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