Tradition
Postgenderism
Overview
Postgenderism is a social, political, and cultural movement that arose from the eroding of the cultural, psychological, and social role of gender, and an argument for why the erosion of binary gender will be liberatory.
Postgenderists argue that gender is an arbitrary and unnecessary limitation on human potential, and foresee the elimination of involuntary psychological gendering in the human species as a result of social and cultural designations and through the application of neurotechnology, biotechnology, and assistive reproductive technologies.
Advocates of postgenderism argue that the presence of gender roles, social stratification, and gender differences is generally to the detriment of individuals and society. Given the radical potential for advanced assistive reproductive options, postgenderists believe that sex for reproductive purposes will either become obsolete or that all post-gendered humans will have the ability, if they so choose, to both carry a pregnancy to term and impregnate someone, which, postgenderists believe, would have the effect of eliminating the need for definite genders in such a society.
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It is therefore very surprising to hear that there are men for whom the sexual object is not woman but man, and that there are women for whom it is not man but woman. Such _persons_ are called contrary sexuals, or better, inverts; the _condition_, that of inversion. The number of such individuals is considerable though difficult of accurate determination.[3] A. _Inversion_ *The Behavior of Inverts.*--The…
Sigmund Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
States what Postgenderism is.
Not all of the individual component urges prove of equal value, in view of the ultimate task they are called upon to serve. Many of them have to be “re-routed,” refashioned, partially subdued. Such a protracted process of development cannot always be pursued smoothly, without obstacles arising here and there and without engendering partial fixations in the course of the earlier stages. Wherever, in later life…
Sigmund Freud, The problem of lay-analyses
States what Postgenderism is.
318) 'is called that of _individual_ preformation or the evolution theory: the system which regards them as products is called Epigenesis.--which might also be called the theory of _generic_ preformation, considering that the productive powers of the générants follow the inherent tendencies belonging to the family characteristics, and that the specific form is therefore a 'virtual' preformation, in this way the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Postgenderism is.
Philosophers who discussed Postgenderism
Related ideas
- Feminism
- Anthropocentrism
- Dystopia
- Futurism
- Patriarchy
- Donna Haraway
- Posthumanism
- Science fiction
- Socialism
- Sexism
- Transhumanism
- Gender
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Biotechnology
- Essentialism
- Humanism
- Communication
- Posthuman
- Marge Piercy
- A Cyborg Manifesto
Place in the tradition
Part of Transhumanism.