It's the 21st century — do you know what gender you are?

Abstract

This paper discusses the challenges to a feminism based on a stable category of ‘woman’ that are presented by the social construction and postmodern views of genders as fluid and multiple, and by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender theory and research on sex and sexuality. It lays out their potential positive and negative impact on feminist theory and praxis. The paper will discuss ways of doing multidimensional research, and the implications of such research for feminist theory and politics.

Citation

Lorber, J. (2001), "It's the 21st century — do you know what gender you are?", Demos, V. and Texler Segal, M. (Ed.) An International Feminist Challenge to Theory (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 119-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-2126(01)80029-1