Phoenix, A;
(2017)
Unsettling intersectional identities: historicizing embodied boundaries and border crossings.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
, 40
(8)
pp. 1312-1319.
10.1080/01419870.2017.1303171.
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Abstract
At a time when the pace of global change has led to unprecedented shifts in, and unsettling of, identities, Brubaker brings “trans/gender” and “trans/racial” creatively into conversation to theorize the historical location of identity claims and to examine the question of whether identities are optional, self-consciously chosen and subject to political claims rather than biologically pre-given. His main argument is that the distinction between sex and gender allows us to construct gender identity as personal, individual and separate from the (biologically) sexed body. In contrast, other people always have a stake in allowing or challenging identity claims to racial identity. Brubaker’s argument is persuasive. However, he treats both race and sex/gender as solipsistic and neglects the wider social context that has produced the conditions of possibility for the entrenched differences he records. An intersectional approach would have deepened his discussion of the place of categories in “trans” arguments.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Unsettling intersectional identities: historicizing embodied boundaries and border crossings |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01419870.2017.1303171 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1303171 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Historical location, identities, intersectionality, performativity, race, sex, gender, structural context, RACE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1558032 |
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