De la déconstruction discursive du genre à la déconstruction technique de la matière : une analyse du concept de genre dans l'univers technoscientifique
Today’s emphasis on the notion of gender, conceptualized and promoted within the feminist theory, as well as the radical criticism of social and historical constructions regarding sex and its biological determinations, seem to have lead, on the one hand, to the loss of an important aspect of the analytical power and, on the other hand, by reducing it to is social inscriptions, to the loss of the body itself in its materiality. In this respect, this paper evolves around the issue whereby the deconstruction and reassessment of social constructions such as sexuality, gender, sex and even kinship, lead mainly by feminist and queer theories and, more broadly, by social sciences, contribute to the denaturalization and material deconstruction process already undertaken by technological and scientific development. The reflexion implemented throughout the gender concept and the theorization which assimilates and conveys it, rests basically on the same principles undertaken by technoscience denaturalization, participating and encouraging it as well. Moreover, the material deconstruction of the body and the sex which took place in the biomedical field in the early 20th century appears to be the basis, the conditional possibility as well as the shaping of the notion of gender in the 1950’s. Such notion seems to never have ceased being in direct relation to this realm of technoscientific sense which made it possible, by going along with its mutations as well as by its active participation. If the project of body and sex deconstruction is generally associated to post-modern authors and their particular use of gender, we wish to set forth the idea that the gender concept entails in itself the deconstruction of the body and the sex, fragmented, if not denied, and that since its origins, its rests basically on controlling and instrumentalizing the body, inherited from the mechanistic model of thought; relying on the technicistic paradigm and the technoscientific industrial realm without which, it would not even have been considered.
Technique Technoscience Gender Sex Body Technic Deconstruction