Some people think that the androgyny concept doesn't go far enough; because androgyny still reproduces elements of the old false split of femininity and masculinity, it should be abandoned. What we need is not to construct combinations of two false concepts, but to go back to - and forward to - a situation with no split in the first place, a place without a gender dichotomy. The point must be made that keeping the masculine and the feminine apart and separate is what is difficult and unnatural, while keeping them together is simple and natural. We must thus move beyond androgyny, in order to overcome the cultural and social schizophrenia of gender dualism.
So, I'm interested in anything that blurs, transforms or recreates gender, puts a new perspective on gender, or just any weird ideas or expressions of gender. You may thus conclude that I want to deconstruct gender - but that is at best a half-truth, because I'm even more interested in reconstructing gender. Or, more precisely: I'm interested the deconstruction of the current arbitrary and collectivist gender bi-polarization ideology, thus opening the path for reconstruction(s) of gender, in the form of 5 billion or more unique gender identitities. And I'm collecting links to all kind of stuff about this, and that's what this page is about. You'll find the links below. I provide a growing and shifting context of elements; you'll have to evaluate and integrate them yourselves. You must be your own gender dialectician. And if you come up with something new, insightful, creative, weird or otherwise interesting, let me know, and I'll add it to this page.
So far I've only talked about gender (the social and cultural aspects of gender identity), but many people apply all the above to sex (the biological aspects of gender identity) as well. You'll find links to those ideas - and realities - too.
So, let's do it. And if you think you know about an URL that ought to be included here, do tell.
PS:
In the last update I added a lot of links to Wikipedia entries --
not because of laziness -- well, maybe it is, but only because
those links are more permanent/less prone to become dead links.
Wikipedia, of course, is just a starting point for further
reading, and they provide a lot of links to other source material.
A Martian's View of Gender
(A similar version of the Martian anthropologist.)
Practical Androgyny:
Devoted to the practicalities of ambiguous gender
presentation within a binary gendered society.
Raphael Carter:
The Angel's Dictionary
(Extend your gender vocabulary; know more and see more)
Voice of the
Shuttle Gender Studies Page
(Lots of academic links)
Polymorph
(A novel; cyberpunk, horror, genders, sexualities)
Alternative Sexualities in Fantasy and Science Fiction
Amazons
(Perhaps the most subversive gender radicals of them all)
Jeffery A. Brown:
Gender and the
Action Heroine:
Hardbodies and the Point of no Return
Vive les Differences!
(Thomas Gramstad examines the Orwellian, collectivist nature of a
well-known
and overused catch-phrase - and how to recast it in a way
that promotes rather
than hinders individualism)
Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto and Cyborg Feminism
Swinburne's
Philosophy of Androgyny
(I'd call it religion, but
anyway)
Gender
Differences in Levels of Androgyny as Reflected in Styles of
Expression
of Anger in Marital Relationships
(An interesting
Master's Thesis, and some good quotes too)
Same Closet, Different Door: A
Heterosexual Sissy's Coming-Out Party
(Allan Hunter breaks
into new territory)
Joan Jett
(If you need to ask, you need to look)
The
Bloomsbury Group
(In more ways than one, these people
introduced concepts of androgyny and queeriness)
EBE Theory:
Exotic Becomes Erotic
(A Developmental Theory of Sexual Orientation,
developed by Daryl J. Bem)
Criticism of EBE Theory
by Peplau et al.
Postsexualism and Michel Foucault
Janet Jackson
(Just Because)
Jaye
Davidson
(Gives a new meaning to the old adage of "the woman
behind the man")
"What's So Funny
About Bisexual Separatism?"
(Do find out)
Queer
Theory -- briefly
and concisely explained
(Is gender and
sexual orientation identity or performance? Essence or action?)
Allucquere
Rosanne Stone / Sandy
Stone:
The Empire
Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto
The Intersex Society of North
America
(They publish a publication called
Hermaphrodites With an Attitude, oppose forced
surgery on intersexual children, and strive to carve out a
sex/gender identity for
themselves, outside the man-woman dualism)
Center for Gender
Sanity
(A refuge from dichotomies, stereotypes, and other
madness...)
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Androgynous
AVEN - Asexual Visibility and Education Network
http://www.asexuality.org/
An Asexuality Resource Guide by John Schmidt
http://www.datehookup.com/content-an-asexuality-resource-guide.htm
Cuddle Orientation
http://agentyduck.blogspot.no/2014/04/cuddle-orientation.html
How A Cuddle Party Taught Me to Stop Worrying About The Kinsey
Scale
https://medium.com/the-pansexual-labyrinth/how-a-cuddle-party-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-about-the-kinsey-scale-94ed133c4b4e
About Asexuality and the Ace and Aro Spectrum
http://cupcakearrow.tumblr.com/acearothings
Sexual Disorientation: A Pansexual Search for Love and Connection
http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Disorientation-Heteroflexible-Search-Connnection-ebook/dp/B00KPK51DQ
The Pansexual Labyrinth
https://medium.com/the-pansexual-labyrinth
To Hunt, to Howl, to Love Free: Heather Johannsen on the Powerful
Women of Elfquest
http://elfquest.com/hunthowl/
Fra
tvekjønnet Kristus til unisex-mote
(Universitas)