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What is gender artifactualism?

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This is the one in a series of blog posts in which I discuss some of the concepts and terminology that I forward in my writings, including my new book Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive. So in Excluded, I introduce the term “gender artifactualism” to describe, “the tendency to conceptualize and depict gender as being primarily or entirely a cultural artifact.” Gender artifactualist viewpoints are pervasive within feminist and queer activism, and within the academic fields of Women’s/Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Sociology, certain subfields of Psychology, and in the Humanities more generally. Why is this term needed? I created the term to make a distinction between the idea that gender is “socially constructed” versus the idea that gender is “just a construct”—both of which are common refrains within the aforementioned academic and activist settings, but which imply very different things. As I put it in Excluded: To

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“What is gender artifactualism?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging community and organizing. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

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As a publication record from 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “What is gender artifactualism?” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to community and organizing. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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julia

8 publications · 5 inbound sources/citations