This article pursues the hypothesis that there is a structural affinity between the case study as a genre of writing and the question of gendered subjectivity. With John Forrester’s chapter ‘Inventing Gender Identity: The Case of Agnes’ as my starting point, I ask how the case of ‘Agnes’ continues to inform our understanding of different disciplinary approaches (sociological and psychoanalytic) to theorizing gender. I establish a conversation between distinct, psychoanalytically informed feminisms (Simone de Beauvoir, Juliet Mitchell, Judith Butler, and Denise Riley) to move from the mid-20th century to contemporary cultural debate.

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令人困惑的案例：Forrester、Stoller、Agnes、女人

本文追求这样一种假设，即案例研究作为一种写作体裁与性别主体性问题之间存在结构上的关联。以约翰·福雷斯特 (John Forrester) 的“发明性别认同：艾格尼丝的案例”一章为出发点，我询问“艾格尼丝”的案例如何继续让我们理解不同的学科方法（社会学和精神分析）来将性别理论化。我在不同的、经过精神分析的女权主义（西蒙·德·波伏娃、朱丽叶·米切尔、朱迪思·巴特勒和丹尼斯·莱利）之间建立对话，从 20 世纪中叶转向当代文化辩论。