Retribution, Reward, and Reincarnation: Gender Nonnormativity as the Supernatural in Late Imperial China’s Gender System

IF 0.4 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.7560/jhs31302
Ao Huang
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u n d e R s t a n d i n g t h e s u p e R n a t u R a l seems to be in epistemological tension with the formation and theorization of queer subjecthood, which is generally characterized as secular and progressive. Under the framework of neoliberal modernity and Western “sexual exceptionalism,” “normative queer subjects” have been constructed as rational and incompatible with understandings of spirituality, faith, or religion.1 Similarly, certain mainstream strands of queer theory seem to be committed to “an existential scepticism regarding the possibility of a transcendent, divine source of meaning.”2 This incompatibility can also be found in scholarship on queer history. Such tension has been markedly exacerbated by Michel Foucault’s works, which drive historians to “privilege science and medicine as the epistemic leverage for the formation of modern gender and sexual identities.”3 The resulting overlooking of supernatural elements also exists in the field of China’s queer history, which tends to focus on more tangible powers and regulations of gender transgression through empirical analysis of political, legal, and medical discourse. This is acknowledged by Wu
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报应、奖赏与轮回:晚清中国性别体系中的超自然性别非规范性
随着酷儿主体性的形成和理论化,u n d e R s t a n d i n g t h e s u p e R n a t u R a l似乎处于认识论张力中,酷儿主体地位通常被表征为世俗和进步。在新自由主义现代性和西方“性例外论”的框架下,“规范性酷儿主体”被构建为理性的,与对精神、信仰或宗教的理解不相容。1同样,酷儿理论的某些主流分支似乎致力于“对超越、神圣意义来源的可能性的存在主义怀疑论”。2这种不相容性也可以在酷儿历史的学术中找到。米歇尔·福柯的作品明显加剧了这种紧张关系,这些作品促使历史学家“将科学和医学视为现代性别和性身份形成的认识杠杆。”3由此产生的对超自然元素的忽视也存在于中国酷儿史领域,通过对政治、法律和医学话语的实证分析,它倾向于关注性别越轨的更具体的权力和规定。吴承认了这一点
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