The Body in Gender Discourse The Fragmentary Space of the Feminine (Added 1998)
Utilizing Abdelkebir Khatibiâs Le Livre du Sang, this author analyzes the roles of sex,
gender, and sexuality as socially inscribed onto the body through the various determining
categories of: active/passive, secrecy/disclosure, purity/impurity, tattooed/un-tattooed,
visible/invisible, identification/repulsion (or identification/repudiation), and abject/sacred.
In this text, the body becomes the field of play, of creation, whereby performance
determines and often alters the traditional identities of gender and sexuality (and
sometimes of sex).
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