Is there anything that members of each binary category of gender have in common? Even many non-essentialists find the lack of unity within a gender worrying as it undermines the basis for a common political agenda for women. One promising proposal for achieving unity is by means of a shared historical lineage of cultural reproduction with past binary models of gender (e.g. Bach in Ethics 122:231–272, 2012). I demonstrate how such an account is likely to take on board different binary and also non-binary systems of gender. This implies that all individuals construed as members of the category, “women” are in fact not members of the same historical kind after all! I then consider different possible means of modifying the account but conclude negatively: the problem runs deeper than has been appreciated thus far.

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性别作为一种历史类型：两个性别的故事？

每个二元性别类别的成员有什么共同点吗？甚至许多非本质主义者也发现性别内部缺乏统一性令人担忧，因为它破坏了女性共同政治议程的基础。实现统一的一个有希望的建议是通过与过去的二元性别模型共享文化再生产的历史谱系（例如巴赫伦理学 122:231–272, 2012）。我展示了这样一个帐户如何可能采用不同的二元和非二元性别系统。这意味着所有个人都被解释为类别的成员，“女性”实际上毕竟不是同一历史类型的成员！然后，我考虑了修改帐户的不同可能方法，但得出的结论是否定的：问题比迄今为止所理解的更深。