Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective
Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective
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作为连续性的性别：将女性视为一个社会集体
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10.1086/494918
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发表时间：
1994
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I. Young
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作者：
I. Young
1989年夏天，我参加了雪莉·赖特的竞选活动，争取伍斯特学校委员会的一个席位。雪莉是一个非洲裔美国人，而她所在的城市约有5%到7%的人口是非洲裔美国人，7%到10%是西班牙裔美国人。然而，与许多其他城市一样，公立学校35%以上的学生是黑人、西班牙裔或亚裔，有色人种儿童的比例正在迅速增长。十多年来，学校委员会的六个席位全部由白人担任，只有一名女性担任了大约两年。在她的宣布演讲中，雪莉·赖特承诺代表伍斯特的所有人。但她指出，特别需要代表少数族裔，她还强调了在委员会中代表女性声音的重要性。几周后，我和一个朋友在一家杂货店外面分发雪莉·赖特的传单。传单上有一张雪莉的照片，以及一些关于她的资格和问题的基本信息。整个上午，至少有两个白人女性对我喊道：“我很高兴看到一个女性竞选学校委员会！”这位非裔美国女性声称自己是伍斯特女性的代言人，一些白人女性注意到了她，并对她的女性身份产生了好感。在当时的我看来，这似乎是一种不起眼的、容易理解的亲和力。然而，女权主义者最近讨论了把女性作为一个单一群体来谈论的困难和危险，这让这些事件至少显得令人费解。
In the summer of 1989 I worked in Shirley Wright's campaign for a seat on the Worcester School Committee. Shirley is African-American in a city where about 5–7 percent of the population are African-American, and 7–10 percent are Hispanic. As in many other cities, however, more than 35 percent of the children in the public schools are black, Hispanic, or Asian, and the proportion of children of color is growing rapidly. For more than ten years all six of the school committee seats have been held by white people, and only one woman has served, for about two years. In her announcement speech Shirley Wright pledged to represent all the people of Worcester. But she noted the particular need to represent minorities, and she also emphasized the importance of representing a woman's voice on the committee. A few weeks later a friend and I distributed Shirley Wright flyers outside a grocery store. The flyers displayed a photo of Shirley and some basics about her qualifications and issues. In the course of the morning at least two women, both white, exclaimed to me, “I'm so glad to see a woman running for school committee!” This African-American woman claimed to speak for women in Worcester, and some white women noticed and felt affinity with her as a woman. This seemed to me at the time an unremarkable, easily understandable affinity. Recent discussions among feminists about the difficulties and dangers of talking about women as a single group, however, make such incidents appear at least puzzling.