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The previous chapter discussed some key sites for intervention that might foster individual subjects capable of perceiving themselves, and approaching the world with an androgynous ethos, and with a reciprocal code of conduct (ethics) — that is, subjects capable of resisting gendered subjectivation. In previous chapters I have outlined how greatly the capacities for purposive existence, and the ability to resist sexual difference and essentialising identity, are contingent on an ‘equally free other’ who is able to resist attributing identity with preconceptions — that is, enabling, reciprocal intersubjectivity between two purposive individuals. I have also, following many social theorists, emphasised throughout how these capacities are deeply contingent on the cultural resources or ‘fund of ideas’ from which individuals may act.
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Nicholas, L. (2014). Ethical Post-Gender Sexual Relationships and Communities. In: Queer Post-Gender Ethics. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137321626_9
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