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i think that humankind has not yet achieved a full revolutionary political consciousness at all until it is able to begin politicizing the process of sexing the body itself & the lack of or resistance to this is part of why misogyny has been the end or limit to every revolutionary movement

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if you take sex/gender or sexuality as a theological or biological given and not something that has a history and exists as social relations then every time you try to move human beings towards freedom in equal union you hit the wall that the aforementioned systems restrict this

i havent read it yet so i can't confirm its quality but i think "Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud" by Thomas Laqueur might be what you're looking for?

to me it's similar to keeping ancien regime property or labour relations intact, i outlined sexing the body here specifically because today gender has become inscribed on the flesh as its final frontier, and sexuality is articulated as a genetic feature rather than a social mediation of desire

I think that's the reason reactionaries are SO eager to destroy trans people. If you can meaningfully change your sex then the sexed body becomes meaningless as a site of control and from there it stands to reason, one day too will sexual acts. Thus, patriarchy, root of reaction, is destroyed.