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'''Gender abolitionism''' broadly refers to viewpoints that advocate the dissolution of [[Gender role|gender roles]] and gender norms.<ref>https:// | '''Gender abolitionism''' broadly refers to viewpoints that advocate the dissolution of [[Gender role|gender roles]] and gender norms.<ref>Cull, Matthew J. 2019. “Against Abolition”. ''Feminist Philosophy Quarterly'' 5 (3). https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2019.3.5898.</ref> A related term is '''postgenderism''', the idea that human culture should advance beyond gender.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgenderism</ref> | ||
One source writes that "gender abolition is about dismantling the basal structures of the [[sexism|patriarchy]], not about barring people from expressing their identity" and that "gender abolition does not prevent people from engaging with [[masculinity]] and [[femininity]] and constructing their identities around those concepts."<ref>https://cherwell.org/2021/10/09/gender-abolition-why-it-matters/</ref> | One source writes that "gender abolition is about dismantling the basal structures of the [[sexism|patriarchy]], not about barring people from expressing their identity" and that "gender abolition does not prevent people from engaging with [[masculinity]] and [[femininity]] and constructing their identities around those concepts."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cherwell.org/2021/10/09/gender-abolition-why-it-matters/ |title=Gender abolition: Why it matters |date=9 October 2021 |author=Anonymous |work=Cherwell}}</ref> | ||
[[Feminism|Feminist]] Andrea Dworkin wrote in 1974 of an idealized, gender-abolitionist future society: | |||
{{quote|...by changing our premises about men and women, role-playing, and polarity, the social situation of [[transsexual]]s will be transformed, and transsexuals will be integrated into community, no longer persecuted and despised. [In this way], community built on [[androgynous]] identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as [[gender roles|roles]] disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/john-stoltenberg-andrew-dworkin-was-trans-ally/ |last=Stoltenberg |first=John|title=Andrea Dworkin Was a Trans Ally| date=8 April 2020 |work=Boston Review}}</ref>}} | |||
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