Trouble dans l'antinaturalisme

Contraceptive pill, assisted reproductive technologies, Viagra: the contemporary tendency to intervene on one's own body for gender-related reasons seems to designate the realm of biology as the place where questions of reproduction, desire, or gender identity can be solved. However, feminist literature has traditionally been reluctant to recognize the explanatory relevance of organic factors. Should these contemporary practices be seen as a refutation of anti-naturalism? Of constructivism? Fundamentally: how can we talk about the body from a critical perspective?
To solve this problem, Claire Grino identifies various families of bodily techniques according to the way they articulate body, sex, and gender. She shows that biomedical techniques contribute to a new chapter in the history of the gendered body. The biomedicalization of gender issues begs for a critique of the biologization of social issues, which is not the same as criticizing their naturalization. Critical categories must therefore be adjusted, through a dialogue with the life sciences, instead of being discarded and replaced by medical experts.