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@article{ Honkanen2005,
 title = {‘It is Historically Constituted’},
 author = {Honkanen, Katriina},
 journal = {European Journal of Women's Studies},
 number = {3},
 pages = {281-295},
 volume = {12},
 year = {2005},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054269},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-224832},
 abstract = {This article explores the historicism of feminist constructivism. It focuses on the                work of Judith Butler, and explores how the idea of history and elements of                temporality are used in her theory of materialization. It argues that the radical                historicism implied in the Jamesonian request ‘Historicize!’ can                become a self-defeating enterprise. The hypothesis is that historicism has been used                as a kind of ‘black box’ in feminist constructivism. The article                points out the way in which constructivists rely much too easily on history as                evidence, and talk about history as if it stands outside construction. This                ambivalence in constructivist thought is prevalent. The article proposes that                feminist theorists of materiality recognize the predominance of self-evident notions                of historicity in constructivist theories and start practising a strategic                forgetting of history.},
}