Ella Taylor

The Materiality of Sex in Foucault and Salamon Moving Beyond the Essentialist/Social Constructionist Divide

Comparative analysis of Gayle Salamon’s essay “An Ethics of Transexual Difference” and Michel Foucault's essay “The Repressive Hypothesis”. https://artsandsciencereview.ocadu.ca/issue/2020-2021/materiality-sex-foucault-and-salamon

“In putting Gayle Salamon’s relational understanding of sexuality in conversation with the underlying tension between culture and biology in Foucault's work, we can imagine sexuality—as Foucault urges us to—beyond the limitations of exclusively social constructionist or essentialist approaches.”