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Anne Dalke's picture

playing with categories

As I mentioned in class, the last iteration of this course was actually called "Playing with Categories: Re-doing the Politics of Sex and Gender," and the whole class was designed around

  • the inevitability of our making of categories,
  • play as a way of unsettling them, and
  • politics as a way of making them useful, as we put them into action in re-making the world.

So, I agree: we cannot but make categories.
AND/BUT we cannot but critique their costs and limits, and so continually RE-make them. Some of those old groups might go!
(Shall we discuss the "group" that is the women's college....???)

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