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The aim of this study is to identify the links between the exposure to, and use of, TICs in both public and private life. I shall explain how, in spite of my own easy access to TICs, barriers of gender or migration have meant that this is not a universal experience - whether in the public or private domain. For some, TICs are habitually underused and an object of some ignorance; for others, they are both a means and indeed an object of investigation. I shall examine the effects not only of gender and class, but also the production of knowledge about (and access to) TICs, as for example in moral panics over videogames and mobile phones. I shall concentrate on TICs in everyday life, and in the construction of the identity of TICs' users.

On the sexual identities question, different gender views tend to forget a basic Feminist Theory's premise, formulated by Simone de Beauvoir in "The Second Sex": "to be" a woman, a man (like to be a Black, an Arab, a Gipsy, a homosexual, a foreigner) is "to have arrived to be." In the search of possible "de-identification" strategies, against the "amnesia" (oblivion) about the power relations & authoritarian means which rule the constitution of sexually marked identities, the author vindicates the gender "experience" & "remembering" on which gender "historicity" takes roots; the "stories" ("recits") contribution to the recovering of memories & meanings, & its capacity to generate the new. Adapted from the source document.

This text takes social-psychological perspective to examine Butler's theory on the performativity of gender. In contemporary feminist thinking 'sex' is usually associated with 'nature,' & 'gender' with 'culture' & social dimensions o sex categories; so sex & gender are presented like opposite concepts. Judith Butler proposes in her writings a deconstruction of this dichotomy: she explains that sex is also a social construction &, in consequence, sex would have been gender all the time. This text also studies possible contributions from the theory on performativity to a theory on the subjectivity in Social Psychology; in this sense it's fundamental her defense of the 'paradoxical' possibility of social transformation starting from the social categories that constitute us &, at the same time, subordinate us too.