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The Politics of Sex and Gender: Benhabib and Butler Debate Subjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Fiona Webster
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Abstract

This paper responds to the sense of “crisis” or “trouble” that dominates contemporary feminist debate about the categories of sex and gender. It argues that this perception of crisis has emerged from a fundamental confusion of theoretical and political issues concerning the implications of the sex/gender debate for political representation and agency. It explores the sense in which this confusion is manifest in a debate between Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , Winter 2000 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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