Femininity and masculinity in post-modernism

摘要

The moderator opened the panel and gave the floor to the panelists. Claudio Eizirik began as follows: 'Post-modern critics, though not congruent with one another, all disavow the notion that human beings have any essential or unitary core. Post- modern accounts of human experience are united only in their opposition to the ideals of Enlighten- ment beliefs, which are considered an elaborate, if also convenient, set of "fictions". 'Femininity and masculinity are usually seen as the quality, nature or state of the female or male sex.