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本文原载于美国《星丛》(Constella-tions)杂志2007年第2期(第14卷),作者劳雷尔·韦尔登(S.Laurel Weldon)是美国普渡大学政治学副教授。她以全球视域探究政治变化及公共政策,涉及民主和女权理论的许多观点与问题,并对一些地区和国家的妇女权利问题进行了实地考察和案例研究。韦尔登在本文中探讨了美国著名女性主义理论家艾利斯·扬对性别概念的发展及贡献。扬认为,最好将性别理解为“生命感受体”(lived body)相对于他人在社会关系之中确定其位置的特定方式。扬在完善她有关“性别作为一个社会结构”的思想时提出了三条基本轴线:劳动的性别
This article was originally published in the journal Constella-tions 2007, Volume 2 (Volume 14). Author S. Laurel Weldon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. She explores political change and public policy from a global perspective and involves many perspectives and issues of democracy and feminist theory. She also conducts field visits and case studies on the rights of women in some regions and countries. In this article, Weldon explores the development and contribution of the famous American feminist theorist Ellis Young in the concept of gender. Young believes that it is best to understand gender as the specific way in which “lived body” determines its place in social relations relative to others. Young raised three basic axes in her thinking on “Gender as a Social Structure”: Gender of Labor