Seriality (gender studies)

See also: Seriality

Seriality, or serial collectivity, is a term that was used by the feminist scholar Iris Marion Young to describe a reconceptualization of the category of woman in her 1994 essay Gender as Seriality. Young borrowed the concept of seriality from Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, where he originally developed the idea to describe the relationship of individuals to social classes and the capitalist system of production and consumption. Understanding women as a series, rather than a group, entails the recognition that the category woman is not defined by any common biological or psychological characteristics; rather, individuals are positioned as woman by a set of material and immaterial social constructs that are the product of previous human actions.

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