What Gender Should Be

Matthew J. Cull (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-32898-3 (ISBN)

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What is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings.
Developing an explicitly political version of conceptual engineering, What Gender Should Be contains novel and powerful arguments both against existing theories of gender such as family resemblance accounts and against gender abolition, underlining how each is insufficient for thinking about and doing justice to contemporary transgender identities and politics. Instead, Matthew J. Cull argues that we should be pluralists about gender, putting forward and advocating for a position that is 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.

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.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: From Conceptual Change to Liberation
1. Conceptual Engineering
2. Between Semantics and Metaphysics
3. What Conceptual Change Can Do for Liberation

Part II: Pluralism
4. The Double-Counting and Discrete/Continuous Problems
5. Gender Pluralism
6. Gender Identity, Deflated

Part III: Abolitionism, Past and Present
7. The Mare Magnum, Or Transcendental Androgyny
8. Engineers and Wrecking Crews: Contemporary Gender Abolitionism
Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Transgender Theory
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-32898-7 / 1350328987
ISBN-13	978-1-350-32898-3 / 9781350328983
Zustand	Neuware