What Even Is Gender?
Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called...
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| author | Briggs, R. A. George, B. R. |
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| description | Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called "gender" that both sides are arguing about. The authors distinguish a range of phenomena that established vocabulary often lumps together. This sheds light on the equivocations and false dichotomies of "gender" talk, and how they deny many of us the tools to make our needs, experiences, and concerns intelligible to others or even to ourselves. The authors develop a conceptual toolkit that helps alleviate the harms that result from the limitations of familiar approaches. They propose a pluralistic concept of "gender feels" that distinguishes among our experiences of diverse facets of gendered life. They develop a flexible approach to gender categories that reflects the value of self-determination. And they suggest that what we need is not one universal language of gender but an awareness of individual variation and a willingness to adjust to changing contexts and circumstances. A bold and thought-provoking approach to thinking about gender, What Even Is Gender? will be of great interest to those in philosophy, gender studies, sociology, and LGBTQIA+ studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1606392025-05-28T05:43:07Z What Even Is Gender? Briggs, R. A. George, B. R. gender trans feminism identity ethics sex UK's Independent Nonbinary People Marriage Equality Debate Gender Feels Gender Category Membership Autogynephilic Transsexuals Trans People DSM-5 Diagnostic Criterion Hermeneutical Injustice Cis People Gender Categories Response Dependent Account Feminist Social Epistemology Nissan Sentra Gender Self-determination Consensual Gender Gender Dysphoria Gendered Traits Medical Transition Trans Liberation Gender Nonconforming People Default Presumption thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called "gender" that both sides are arguing about. The authors distinguish a range of phenomena that established vocabulary often lumps together. This sheds light on the equivocations and false dichotomies of "gender" talk, and how they deny many of us the tools to make our needs, experiences, and concerns intelligible to others or even to ourselves. The authors develop a conceptual toolkit that helps alleviate the harms that result from the limitations of familiar approaches. They propose a pluralistic concept of "gender feels" that distinguishes among our experiences of diverse facets of gendered life. They develop a flexible approach to gender categories that reflects the value of self-determination. And they suggest that what we need is not one universal language of gender but an awareness of individual variation and a willingness to adjust to changing contexts and circumstances. A bold and thought-provoking approach to thinking about gender, What Even Is Gender? will be of great interest to those in philosophy, gender studies, sociology, and LGBTQIA+ studies. 2025-05-28T05:43:07Z 2025-05-28T05:43:07Z 2025-05-27T10:40:02Z 2023 book ONIX_20250527T122911_9781000881264_64 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102786 9781000881264 9780367513214 9781003053330 9780367513177 9781000881288 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160639 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102786/1/9781000881264.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003053330 10.4324/9781003053330 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 a895e8b0-5686-470c-a584-a0180c3e1e3d 90dddcda-4a7d-4635-82a6-6911407e74cb 9781000881264 9780367513214 9781003053330 9780367513177 9781000881288 Routledge 196 Oxford [...] Stanford University Stanford 10.13039/100005492 open access |
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