Autore
Ierna, Andrea

Titolo
La realtà pratica della differenza sessuale oltre il naturalismo simbolico. Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler e Anne Fausto-Sterling con Carlo Sini
Periodico
Politica & società
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 41 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 327 - Pagina finale: 350

This article explores the interplay between gendered practices, scientific naturalism, and the embodied dimension of sexual difference in the realms of life and knowledge. Drawing on Sini’s thought of practices, it first examines the formation of certainties and truths, particularly in relation to naturalistic certainties. It then argues for the necessity of integrating the sexed dimension of experience into gender-blind practical thought, adopting Cavarero’s symbolic perspective on sexual difference. Through Preciado’s critique, the article analyzes the risks inherent in the concept of symbolic order, which remains genealogically rooted in the biological binary, raising the question of whether a queer symbolic can exist within symbolic binaristic certainties. This issue is examined in dialogue with Cavarero’s methodology, which rethinks stereotypical certainties about femininity – such as maternity – while highlighting the dangers of reducing maternity to biological stereotypes, particularly in relation to the generative capacities of trans* people. The article then investigates the recent shift in Cavarero and Guaraldo’s theorization of sexual difference to a naturalistic framework, as seen in its association with the abstract reproductive capacities of women. Engaging with Fausto-Sterling and Butler, it assesses the notion of biological certainty in relation to sexual dimorphism, revealing how scientific naturalism renders intersexed bodies invisible. Finally, the article proposes a queer approach to sexual difference, seeking to investigate it as a practical matrix of sexed experiences – that can be embraced or resisted – moving beyond a focus on adult reproduction and adopting an interactionist practical model that centers on the sexed becoming.



SICI: 2240-7901(2025)41:3<327:LRPDDS>2.0.ZU;2-4
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.4476/118740
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