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Questions tagged [gender]

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What is a ‘woman'?

In contemporary society, the theoretical and philosophical question of what gender is is an active topic of discussion. Arguably, while gender may have been a topic of philosophical analysis prior to the 20th century, by asking for example what the…
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Is philosophy male-dominated? If so, why?

"Philosophy is for posh white boys with trust funds". A report by the Equality Challenge Unit in 2015 showed that over 70% of employed philosophers in the UK are white men. Of course, other countries might be a paradise of equality or this exchange…
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What does gender have to do with epistemology?

I am learning about feminist epistemology through the text of Lorraine Code (What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge) and that of Susan Bordo (The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture). Although I…
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Seeking Notable Responses to "Why the Trans Inclusion Problem cannot be Solved" by Tomas Bogardus

I recently came across an intriguing article titled "Why the Trans Inclusion Problem cannot be Solved" by Tomas Bogardus. As someone deeply interested in the philosophical aspects of trans inclusion, I'm curious to know if there have been any…
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Does the requirement to use preferred gender pronous preclude the participation of people whose faith teaches that gender cannot be changed?

There are numerous cases where the views held by different people clash. Homosexual intercourses are one such obvious example: many religious denominations (for example Catholicism) consider them sinful, while many other people uphold that there is…
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What does Talia Mae Bettcher mean by "semantic contextualism"?

In the paper Trans Feminism: Recent Philosophical Developments, Bettcher discusses the idea that it is hard to define the word "woman" and be inclusive of everyone that should be included (for example, trans women) while excluding people that ought…
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Studies exploring the rationale of gender equality

I've been trying to find books&other scientific material that mentions why the gender equality is important and should be achieved. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What did Judith Butler mean by "differential axis of domination" in Gender Trouble?

Can anyone explain the meaning of the following from Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Juridical notions of power appear to regulate political life in purely negative terms—that is, through the limitation, prohibition, regulation, control, and even…
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What determines a person's gender identity?

I've noticed that when many transgender allies and even some transgender people themselves have their claims investigated that they, in my estimation, can never really answer them too adequately: one hears that one is the gender one is because "I…
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Is the notion that queer identities and sexuality are innate incompatible with the view that genders are socially molded?

Probably the single most important proposition/thesis/tenet regarding queer identities currently held is that Queer individuals, just as cishet individuals, are simply born the way they are: they do not "choose" to become queer, they do not "turn"…
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What relationship does gender have with bodily features?

Suppose someone takes a stance that gender is independent of sex, then how could it possibly be that a sex change surgery makes one feel more in line with their gender? And, if one takes the other stance that gender is dependent, how does one…
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How can anything, such as a gender or sex, be said to exist?

It’s very common to hear people nowadays say that there are two related aspects of humans with regards to perhaps something we could call “dimorphism”, or typology associated with form and reproductive characteristics; “sex” and “gender”. I have…
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How do you define ‘reason’ in “X is a reason for Y”?

After seeing the interview of Jordan Peterson about the gender pay gap I was discussing about this topic with my flatmate. Rather than discussing about the gender pay gap here, my question is about the definition of "reason". Assume that one cause…
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Is it unbiased to value social freedom more than scientific results

Is it unbiased or impersonal if we don't want to change our society towards what is right based on research into the biological grounding of psychology? Say that scientists found that (a) the concept of human gender has a relatively crisp…
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Moral argument against grammatical gender

Many languages have grammatical gender, according to which every object has a gender that determines what form of articles to use with that noun, how to decline adjectives modifying that noun, etc. These genders are grammatically the same in the…
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