What Gender Should Be
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What is gender? More importantly, what should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for a position called 'ameliorative pluralism' about gender: that there...
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What is gender? More importantly, what should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for a position called 'ameliorative pluralism' about gender: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings. What Gender Should Be develops an explicitly political version of conceptual engineering (the modification of our representational devices in light of our purposes) based on the work of Otto Neurath and Audre Lorde to examine and critique existing theories of gender. It further produces novel and powerful arguments against those traditions of thinking about gender that arose after the 1980s - family resemblance theories, Butlerian performativity, deflationism, scepticism, and nihilism about gender - developing each tradition in detail before suggesting that each is insufficient for thinking about and doing justice to contemporary transgender identities and politics. Instead, Matthew Cull argues that we should be pluralists about gender, developing and arguing for a position that more apt for contemporary transgender and feminist activism. The 21st century requires a new way of thinking about gender. What Gender Should Be sets out to provide it.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „What Gender Should Be “
Introduction Chapter One - How to Engineer a Gender 1.1 Neurathian Conceptual Engineering 1.2 Constraints, Desiderata 1.3 Amelioration for Activists 1.4 The Political Efficacy Question Chapter Two - Family Resemblances: Failures of Inclusivity 2.1 Family Resemblances 2.2 Cluster Accounts 2.3 Overlapping Accounts 2.2 The Double Counting and Discrete/Continuous Problems 2.3 A Non-Binary Intervention Chapter Three - Anti-Structuralism: Performativity and Prolepsis 3.1 Initiation into Sex and Gender: Exercitives and Proleptic Mechanisms 3.2 Butler's Positive Program 3.3 Prosser's Critiques 3.4 The Phenomenology of Gender 3.5 Anti-Structuralism Considered Chapter Four - Deflating Gender, Deflating Self-Identification 4.1 Semantic Deflationism about Gender 4.2 Self-Identification: A Kinder Deflation 4.3 Worries for Self-Identification Deflationisms 4.4 The Triviality Dispute 4.5 A Defensible Metaphysics of Self-Identification 4.6 Semantic Quietism Chapter Five - Error and Abolition 5.1 Error Theory 5.2 Gender Abolitionism 5.3 Gender Nihilism 5.4 Transgender Identities and Abolitionism 5.5 Ideal Theory, Practical Realities 5.6 Colonialism and Abolition Chapter Six - An Alternative: Ameliorative Semantic Pluralism 6.1 Saul and Bettcher 6.2 The Ameliorative Semantic Pluralist Project 6.3 Objections to Ameliorative Semantic Pluralism 6.4 Saul's Revenge 6.5 Down Enby: The Logic of Gender 6.6 Solidarity: Spelman to the Present Day Chapter Seven - Between Lorde and Neurath: Hermeneutic Innovation 7.1 Back to Neurath 7.2 Sweaty Concepts 7.3 A Meaning for 'Agender' 7.4 The Agender Agenda and Some Recent Accounts of Gender 7.5 Dembroff's Critical Gender Kind 7.6 Jenkins' Gender Dualism Conclusion
Autoren-Porträt von Matthew J. Cull
Matthew J. Cull is a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Their work covers a variety of areas in social and political philosophy, focusing in particular on feminist and transgender philosophy. Matthew's writing has previously appeared in venues such as Philosophical Papers, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and The Journal of Social Ontology.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Matthew J. Cull
- 2024, 240 Seiten, Maße: 13,8 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Ciara Cremin, Abraham Weil
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 1350328987
- ISBN-13: 9781350328983
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.06.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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