Abstract Drawing on Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution and sexual difference feminism, this article elaborates a figuration of sexual difference as different tendencies in the evolution of life on Earth. While Bergson’s philosophy is not feminist, his durational account of evolution articulates a cluster of concepts that offer significant insight into the effort to theorise sexual difference both in human beings and in many forms of life on Earth. I argue that Bergson’s concepts of duration, the élan vital, the virtual, the actual, and the process of actualisation can be taken up as a way to figure sexual differentiation as a fundamental tendency in the evolution of life without construing sexual difference hierarchically and without rendering sexual difference as a static universal. In the context of thinking the sexuate status of humanity, a Bergsonian conceptualisation of sexual difference as evolving tendencies, which generates actualisations of sexed specificity, overcomes a normative position in which woman and man are conceived in terms of fixed attributes that are proper to each sex. Feminist thinking should affirm the diverging actualisations of sexed specificity and embrace the tremendous variety of articulations of female, male, and intersexuality within the human species and within the human individual without hierarchising certain actualisations over others and without claiming that there is a proper way to be a specific sex.

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至少有两个：性别差异的倾向

摘要本文根据亨利·柏格森（Henri Bergson）的创造力进化和性别差异女权主义，阐述了性别差异的形象化，即地球生命演化的不同趋势。尽管伯格森的哲学不是女权主义者，但他对进化论的长期阐述清楚地阐明了一系列概念，这些概念为人们为理论化人类和地球上许多生命形式的性别差异所做的努力提供了重要的见识。我认为，伯格森的持续时间，活力，虚拟，实际和实现过程的概念可以作为一种方法，将性别差异视为生活进化的基本趋势，而无需分层次地理解性别差异。将性别差异呈现为静态的普遍性。在思考人类的性别地位的背景下，柏格森式的将性别差异作为发展趋势的概念化，产生了性别特异性的实现，它克服了规范性的立场，即在这种立场上，男女都适合于每种性别的固定属性。女权主义的思想应确认性别特异性的不同实现，并在人类和人类内部包含多种多样的关于女性，男性和性欲的表述，而不以某些实现为基础，而不必声称有适当的方法特定性别。