Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective

Publication information:

Young, Iris Marion. “Gender As Seriality: Thinking about Women As a Social Collective”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 19, no. 3 (1994): 713-38.

Abstract

Pragmatic political reasons exist for insisting on the possibility of thinking about women as some kind of group. An argument is presented for reconceptualizing social collectivity or the meaning of social groups as what Jean-Paule Sartre describes as a phenomenon of serial collectivity in his "Critique of Dialectical Reason."