When trans translates into tolerance - or was it monstrous? Transsexual and transgender identity in liberal humanist discourse
When trans translates into tolerance - or was it monstrous? Transsexual and transgender identity in liberal humanist discourse
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10.1177/1363460710375569
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
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1.5
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Gressgard, Randi
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作者：
Gressgard, Randi
这篇文章探讨了跨性别者代表一种文化“差异”的方式，这种差异必须在今天的自由民主社会中得到管理。正如温迪·布朗（Wendy Brown）所分析的那样，出发点是自由主义的宽容话语，在这种话语中，威胁性的“他人”受到管制，以防止社会秩序从内部被破坏。根据自由主义规范和价值观，容忍促进个人选择和自主：个人的身份自由。然而，它也假设身份，如跨性别身份，来自于在人身上发现的本质或内在真理。这种构成主观性的矛盾是自由主义宽容论述的核心。跨性别者对这种矛盾提出了质疑，从而挑战了规范性主体性的基础。出现的关键问题是，自由人文主义的宽容是否无视恐怖和敌意，或者宽容话语是否创造了适合现代晚期的、灵活的政府体制的性别化和性化怪物。
The article explores the way in which trans people represent a cultural 'difference' that has to be managed in liberal-democratic societies of today. The point of departure is liberal tolerance discourse, as analysed by Wendy Brown, in which the threatening 'others' are being regulated in order to prevent the social order from being destroyed from within. In accordance with liberal norms and values, tolerance promotes individual choice and autonomy: the individual's freedom of identity. It also assumes, however, that identities, such as trans identity, issue from an essence or inner truth to be found in the person. This subjectivity-constituting contradiction lies at the core of liberal tolerance discourse. Trans people bring into question this contradiction, thereby challenging the foundations of normative subjectivity. The key question that emerges is whether liberal humanist tolerance defies horror and hostility or whether tolerance discourse creates its own gendered and sexualized monsters suitable for late-modern, flexible regimes of governmentality.