There are some wonderful stories from medieval French literature,

在中世纪法国文学中有一些非常好的故事
for, example that Foucault talks about,

例如福柯谈到
that feature girls who jump over ditches and suddenly become boys.

特别描写女孩子们跳过沟渠之后突然就变成了男孩子们
There is this sense of instability of gender that he brings out of

这种性别的不稳定性的感觉被他从
some historical material, and then he talks about how we came to

一些历史资料中提取出来然后他谈到我们如何开始
believe that gender was stable, and what discursive systems were required,

相信性别是稳定的并且需要什么样的散乱的体系
what laws, what kinds of etiquette,

需要什么样的法律哪种礼节
what kinds of education were required to make us believe that

哪种教育来使我们相信
gender was stable, among other things.

性别是稳定的等等
So, this kind of history suggests

所以这种历史暗示
a couple of things to those of us who study literature,

我们这些学习文学的人一些事情
and it did so very powerfully in the 1980s,

并且它的确在十九世纪八十年代非常有影响力