Différance disrupts fixed binary oppositions like male and female.

Evidence

Now this notion of a différance is not simply a set of binary, reversible oppositions, thinking sexual difference not simply in terms of the fixed opposition of male and female, but of all those anomalous sliding positions ever in process, between which opens up the continent of sexuality to increasing points of disturbance. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 214

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how différance replaces binary logic with sliding, middle positions.
• XREF: connects to: The residual term in a binary opposition can become the powerful, privileged term — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 468; Queer theory aims to deconstruct gender binaries, not eliminate them. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 856; Reducing the master to simply male obscures real needed changes. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 264 (+1 more)