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Gender-Critical Feminism Holly Lawford-Smith (Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne)

Gender-Critical Feminism By Holly Lawford-Smith (Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne)

Summary

Holly Lawford-Smith argues that gender is not something to be embraced and celebrated, but a system of oppression which should be rejected. She introduces gender-critical feminism, explaining what it means to conceive of gender as norms and to be critical of gender on the basis of that understanding.

Gender-Critical Feminism Summary

Gender-Critical Feminism by Holly Lawford-Smith (Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne)

The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology. That orthodoxy persists today in many parts of society. On this view, sex is gender and gender is sex. A new view of gender has emerged in recent years, a view on which gender is an 'identity', a way that people feel about themselves in terms of masculinity or femininity, regardless of their sex. On this view, sex is dismissed as unimportant, and gender is made paramount. In the rush to celebrate this new view of gender, we have lost sight of a more powerful challenge to the traditional orthodoxy, namely the feminist sex/gender distinction according to which sex is biological and gender is social. On this view, gender is something done to people on the basis of sex. Women are socialised to conform to norms of femininity (and sanctioned for failure), and masculinity and femininity exist in a hierarchy in which femininity is devalued. This view helps us to understand injustice against women, and what we can do about it. Holly Lawford-Smith introduces and defends gender-critical feminism, a theory and movement that reclaims the sex/gender distinction, insists upon the reality and importance of sex, and continues to understand gender as a way that men and women are made to be, rather than a way they really are.

About Holly Lawford-Smith (Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne)

Holly Lawford-Smith is an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She works in social, moral, and political philosophy and has focused on climate ethics, collective action, and feminism. Her last book was Not In Their Name (OUP, 2019), on citizens' culpability for states' actions. Before the University of Melbourne, she worked at the University of Sheffield, the Australian National University, and Charles Sturt University. Her PhD is from the Australian National University and her undergraduate, Honours, and Masters degrees are from the University of Otago.

Table of Contents

Preface 1: Introduction Part I: What Is Gender-Critical Feminism? 2: Gender-Critical Feminism's Radical Roots 3: Gender-Critical Feminism 4: The Sex Industry 5: Trans/Gender 6: Why is Gender-Critical Feminism So Vilified? Part II: Hard Questions For Gender-critical Feminism 7: Is Gender-Critical Feminism Intersectional? 8: Is Gender-Critical Feminism Feasible? 9: Is Gender-Critical Feminism Liberal? Coda 10: A Gender-Critical Manifesto

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NGR9780198863885
9780198863885
0198863888
Gender-Critical Feminism by Holly Lawford-Smith (Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne)
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Oxford University Press
2022-05-12
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