Revisión crítica de la ideología de género a la luz del realismo metafísico / Critical review of tender ideology in the light of metaphysical realism

La implementación de la ideología de género en el imaginario de las actuales sociedades del bienestar, es deudora de un largo proceso en la historia del pensamiento que condujo hasta la acomodación del discurso postfeminista. Este trabajo expone los principios epistemológicos que se hallan presentes en la ideología de género, atendiendo a sus antecedentes próximos y remotos. La enmarca, además, en el contexto de un impulso emancipador que arranca con la Escolástica medieval y cuyo último eslabón lo constituye el deconstruccionismo post-estructuralista que delineó el concepto de queer. Este concepto disoció las categorías de sexo y género hasta convertirlas en irrelevantes para la determinación de la identidad sexual, susceptible de ser deconstruida y reconstruida sin fin. El artículo revisa también el contexto hedonista del nuevo ambiente postmoderno, mostrando que los conceptos "sensación subjetiva de felicidad" y "vida lograda" no expresan contenidos análogos. A continuación, impugna la ideología de género desde la perspectiva del realismo metafísico, subrayando que sólo en la posibilidad de anticipar la mirada del otro, de suprimir la abstracción de una subjetividad pura, aparece el hombre como persona real. Finalmente, presenta las conclusiones con recomendaciones sustantivas en el ámbito de la educación

The implementing of gender ideology in the imaginary of current welfare-state societies owes much to a long process in the history of thought, which has culminated in an accommodation of post-feminist discourse. This paper sets out the pistemological principles that are present in gender ideology, as a response to both its recent and more-remote antecedents. It is furthermore framed by an urge for emancipation that began with medieval scholasticism, the latest manifestation of which lies in the post-structuralist deconstructionism that outlines the concept of queer. This concept has dissociated the categories of sex and gender to the point of making them irrelevant for the determination of sexual identity, leaving the latter susceptible to being infinitely de- and reconstructed. This article also reviews the liberal-hedonistic context of the new postmodern setting, while showing how the concepts of "a subjective feeling of happiness" and "a life fulfilled" do not express similar content. The paper goes on to challenge the theory of gender from the perspective of metaphysic realism; stressing that the human being only appears as a real person via the possibility of anticipating another›s contemplation, thereby cancelling out the abstraction of pure subjectivity. It finally offers its conclusions, with certain substantive recommendations in the field of education

Sex definitions and gender practices. An update from Australia.

In recent years the Australian parliament has been considering the rights to protection from discrimination of intersex and gender identity disorder (GID) people. In 2013 such protections were made law in the amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, which in turn has influenced Senate inquiries into the medical treatment of intersex people. This year's Australian report describes the purview and the potential ramifications of the inquiry of the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs, published in October 2013, into the involuntary or coerced sterilization of intersex people in Australia.

Género y sexualidad: consideraciones contemporáneas a partir de una reflexión en torno a la transexualidad y los estados intersexuales / Gender and sexuality: contemporary considerations from a reflexion over transexuality and intersexuality states

En el texto se hace un acercamiento a las teorías contemporáneas del género a partir del análisis del caso de la transexualidad y la intersexualidad. Se revisa tanto de los conceptos actuales desde la perspectiva biomédica como de la contestación que se hace desde el campo de las ciencias sociales (AU)

The text gives an approximation to the gender contemporary theories from the analysis of transexuality and intersexuality. Gives a review as the current concepts from the biomedical perspective as the answer that is done from the field of the social sciences (AU)

Sexuality, AIDS, and the lures of modernity: reflexivity and morality among young people in rural Tanzania.

An understanding of young people's perceptions of AIDS and their sexuality is an essential precondition for the effective planning of AIDS campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. In examining how young Luo men and women in Tanzania describe their sexual behavior, I show that cultural conceptions of sexuality gender, and trust have an important impact on their actions. I also show that these conceptions have been rendered ambiguous by globalization, modernity, and by AIDS campaigns themselves. The values that are imparted to young people from family or peers often conflict with the preventive advice provided by both governmental and non-governmental organizations. However, by critically reflecting upon the ambiguities and inconsistencies in their lives, the young Luo have proven to be self-conscious actors and moral subjects who are actively involved in the process of social change. In the concluding section I suggest how elements of self-critique and self-reflection, as well as the often differing perspectives and dilemmas experienced by young men and women, can be taken into account in order to make future educational campaigns more effective.