I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

我正在写一本关于女权主义和科学的三本书的书评,是关于社会建构主义的。所以我会说我是一个社会建构主义者,不管这意味着什么。

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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

成为一名囚犯意味着被定义为一个群体的一员,在这个群体中,可以对你做什么,可以对你做什么被视为虐待,这些规则作为你的地位定义的一部分被减少了。

I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.

我曾经站在你一无所有的那一边,而现在我站在任何我想要的东西都为我而存在的那一边。当我没有办法做任何我想做的事情时,我仍然感到平静。

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

我们的良心不是永恒真理的容器。它随着我们的社会生活而成长,新的社会条件意味着良心的彻底改变。

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

许多书不需要读者思考,原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

天赋是一个水龙头。当它打开时,人们必须写。灵感是诗人为了显示自己的重要性而发明的一场闹剧。

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

社会的存在只能建立在一定程度的精心设计的谎言的基础上,没有人确切地说出他的想法。