El género como estilo: fenomenología de la diferencia sexual  y performatividad de género

María Vecino

doi:10.62876/lr.vi46.6679

Authors

María Vecino Universidad Diego Portales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62876/lr.vi46.6679

Keywords:

institution, type, Beauvoir, Heinämaa, genealogy

Abstract

This paper explores the phenomenological approach to sexual difference in Sara Heinämaa's (2003) interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir's work, whose main thesis consists in understanding sexual difference as a difference of style, a notion of Husserlian phenomenology taken up by Merleau-Ponty, which in this context refers to a shared way of relating to things and the world. Despite the richness of this approach, certain aspects related to the origin and reproduction of this style are not explicitly explored. This can be remedied, on the one hand, by attending to the difference between styles and types; and on the other, by recovering the close link between style and institution in Merleau-Ponty's work. This implies bringing our understanding of gender closer to a theory of performativity, understanding gender as instituted style.

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Author Biography

María Vecino, Universidad Diego Portales

Universidad Diego Portales.

(Santiago de Chile) / Chile.

Professor of secondary and higher education in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Doctor in Philosophy from the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) and the University of Leiden (Netherlands), with a thesis on limit phenomena in the work of Husserl. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Diego Portales University, with a project on the notion of nature in the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, which attempts to put phenomenology in dialogue with environmental thinking. She has taught courses and published articles in the area of Husserlian and post-Hushserlian phenomenology, existentialism, and gender studies.

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