Collette Guillaumin on "Sexage" and appropriation of women: audio

Guillaumin is not a well known name among Anglophone feminists, especially in North America, but her ideas are important. She gave the name of sexage to what Anglo feminists often call the "female sex caste." In French this term parallels servage, "serfdom," and could be rendered into English as "sexification."

She's no longer among the living, but we are at a point of revisiting feminist analysis of patriarchy that was ruptured in the 1990s and increasingly since, when academics led a stampede toward gender theory and nearly abandoned discussion of the structures of patriarchy (except as it relates to gender identity).

Below is a 40 minute audio summary of an article of hers in translation.

From French wikipedia, i translate:

"Colette Guillaumin (1934-2017) was a French sociologist and a militant anti-racist and feminist. She was an important theoretician of the mechanics of racism, sexism and relations of domination. She was also an important figure in materialist feminism. She was one of the founders of the journal Questions féministes, and also was a co-founder of the journal Humankind (Le genre humain).

"Guillaumin proposed an analyse of gender as socially constructed. Her theories intersect with those of radical feminism and blazed a trail for gender-critical thought."

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