SEXED IDENTITY

Abstract

This article concerns the implementation of a non-anthropological, truly universal paradigm equal for all humans in place of sexual difference (which is not All-sexual), and not determined by it. Everything in human life relates to sexual difference, even Man-in-person as distinct from the subject. The theme of liberation is too restricted and narrow if we do not shift our focus back to the anthropological – and as such, philosophical – paradigm, the All-sexual; the All-masculine. Instead of projecting sexual difference onto the human paradigm, we propose, first of all, a pre-sexual “difference” or duality encompassing all humans, and enabling a certain usage or pragmatic of sexual representations. The utopian paradigm thus allows thinking a transformation of sexual difference.

Keywords:

• gender
• sexual difference
• feminism
• sexuality

Notes

1 This essay was originally published in French and Macedonian as “L'Identité sexuée,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender, and Culture 5 (2003): 49–61.