In the Event

An event is a politically inspired action to install a newly discovered truth. I am a modern Chinese intellectual historian. The philosophic assumption underlying my argument is that an event puts a universal truth into action so historians should theorize events fully. The event in question here regards the truth of women; physiological, biogenetic, mammal, hormonal, bodies redefined humanity and made women central to evolution. Theories of evolution may be various and dynamic but the fossil record is incontestable

Historically, the subject women did not jus passively happen: documentation shows women’s and men’s political actions demanding, on the basis of evolutionary biology, that society legitimate women’s violated natural rights. Also historically, we no longer think outside women’s incontestability. So in the event of women actors install a politics of justice in relation to evolutionary reasoning.

Also, historically, an event rooted in a universal truth means that what I uncover in Chinese intellectual and political thought is universal, too. Chinese social theorists, political activists, and cultural critics grafted progressive conceptions of history into social and justice politics, entombed in archives that can be recovered and reconsidered in their immediate “now.”

Gender theory held, agonistically, that the bio-physiological body was chimerical. I take the reverse position. We alter transsexual bodies now, confirming hormone’s truth and that sexuality is psychical. In the event of women, is a political struggle to prove that humans are both different and equal. All involved in revolutionary transformation (China), civil and economic rights (the United States), social acknowledgement (Japan), etc., also see that women are categorically “victims of oppression” who “declare” and are “part of a tentative search for an autonomous politics of the oppressed.” (Hallward, 99)