Ending gender dualism needs both continuity and difference recognition.
Evidence
The resolution of dualism requires, not just recognition of difference, but recognition of a complex, interacting pattern of both continuity and difference. Although forms of feminism stressing similarity to men and forms stressing difference are often seen as incompatible, the analysis of dualism suggests that recognition of continuity and recognition of difference are both needed, and are appropriate responses to different parts of the overall problem of escaping dualised gender identity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 263
Categorization
- XREF: The desegregation/affirmation two-moment model maps onto ch8’s dialectical structure of escaping dualism — continuity and difference answer different dualism features. — connects to: Reworking gender needs both transcendence and affirmation of identity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 255; Gender can be distinguished from sex and nature without dualism — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 762; Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201 (+8 more)
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Broader Connections
- Equality plus recognition of difference must avoid both liberal atomism and absolutist community
#corroborates(0.90) - Gender can be distinguished from sex and nature without dualism
#qualifies(0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 762 - Difference-based feminist critique aims at less dualistic culture, not traditional roles
#corroborates(0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 305 - Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities
#expands(0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201 - Reversal that revalues the subordinated identity without restructuring it stays trapped in dualism
#expands(0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 244 - Différance disrupts fixed binary oppositions like male and female.
#corroborates(0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 214 - The human concept carries masculine bias because gender and nature dualisms intertwine
#complicates(0.75) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 140 - Two opposing needs for inclusion and differentiation jointly drive social identification.
#corroborates(0.75) - Race and gender are mutually defining relational concepts, not separate categories
#corroborates(0.75) - Men’s perspective passes as neutral truth while women’s is read as gendered
#expands(0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 53