Pulling it All Together: Serano’s Intrinsic Inclination Model
Image Credit Throughout the semester, we have read quite few pieces of very influential philosophy involving the nature of gender, and many of these texts have centered around the question o f whether or not gender is to be considered “constructed,” (shaped largely by social forces) or if gender is to be thought of as something separate from social forces, and is instead intrinsic, innate, and fundamental to who a person is. Many of the texts that we have viewed so far, from Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,” to Ásta's Categories we Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race and Other Social Categories , to many of the writings we have seen discussed in Shannon Dea’s book have taken the view that gender is in fact socially constructed, and that there is nothing intrinsic about it. While reading these perspectives and th...
