Self Definition
Self Definition Self Definition argues that sex, gender, and race are constructions by the ineffable self as it seeks to define its possibilities free of domination. Teodros Kiros supports his…
Specifikacia Self Definition
Self Definition
Self Definition argues that sex, gender, and race are constructions by the ineffable self as it seeks to define its possibilities free of domination. Teodros Kiros supports his argument by a careful reading of the literature from both the Global South and Global North that spans figures, works, and eras from antiquity to our late modern present. The self's embodiments are themselves performances of self definition.
These three notions as markers of identity are fluid, open, and expansive, and Kiros brilliantly shows this through inquiry into thought rooted in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, and China. These readings demonstrate that race, gender, and sex are performed in the Global South radically differently from in the Global North. By the time that the Global North forges possibilities of the self in the modern period, race, gender, and sex become fixed.
Biology and anatomy become understood