Luis Keridwen N
a Anthropology Department , Brandeis University , Waltham , Massachusetts , USA.
J Homosex. 2015;62(9):1174-200. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1037129. Epub 2015 Apr 7.
Within women's intentional communities, women use the phrase women's energy to describe certain social interactions, a sense of community, and ideas about how gender is done or performed. For example, energy can express both difference in communication style between men and women and male dominance in social situations. During my fieldwork in these communities, I explored how this phrase suggests a reference to a precultural female body, but it is also sometimes used to explicitly reject biological reasons for gender difference. The term is easily understandable to a wide range of women from varying class backgrounds and encompasses both the unconscious side of social interactions and a possibility for future change.
在女性意向社群中，女性使用“女性能量”这一表述来描述特定的社交互动、社群意识，以及关于性别如何形成或表现的观念。例如，能量既能体现男女沟通方式的差异，也能体现社会情境中男性的主导地位。在这些社群进行田野调查期间，我探究了这个表述如何暗示对一种前文化女性身体的指涉，但它有时也被用来明确拒绝性别差异的生物学原因。这个术语对于来自不同阶级背景的广大女性来说易于理解，它既包含社交互动的无意识层面，也蕴含着未来变革的可能性。
