Ending Sex-Based Oppression: Transitional Pathways
| Autor: | Holly Lawford-Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Philosophy of mind
Oppression Philosophy of science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Ideal theory Philosophy 060302 philosophy Transgender 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Third gender Radical feminism Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Philosophia. 49:1021-1041 |
| ISSN: | 1574-9274 0048-3893 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11406-020-00297-0 |
| Popis: | From a radical feminist perspective, gender is a cage. Or to be more precise, it’s two cages. If genders are cages, then surely we want to let people out. Being less constrained in our choices is something we all have reason to want: theorists in recent years have emphasized the importance of the capability to do and be many different things. At the very least, we should want an end to sex-based oppression. But what does this entail, when it comes to gender? In this paper, I’ll compare four ‘transitional pathways’, with a view to considering how each relates to the ultimate end of ending sex-based oppression. Should we open the doors to the cages, so that people can move freely between them, but leave the cages themselves in place? (Transgender pathway). Should we add more cages? (Nonbinary pathway). Should we make the cages bigger, so that people have a lot more room to move around inside them? Or should we dismantle the cages, so there are no more genders at all? (Gender abolitionist pathways). Some of these options are ‘gender revisionist’, others are gender abolitionist. I’ll argue in favour of a gender abolitionist pathway. |
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