Towards a new gender metaphysics
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Jun 10, 2020
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Gender, Metaphysics, Functionalism, Body image, Desire
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This text formulates a novel proposal about what gender is. To this end, it criticizes various metaphysical models on the issue that have been gaining influence within Anglo-Saxon feminist philosophy. In short, these models are evaluated in light of two controversies feminisms are undergoing today: a) should feminism be gender abolitionist? and b) does gender identity reify gender roles? The hypothesis of this text is to point out that the functionalist biases of the models being criticized lead them to prejudge these issues, ignoring other aspects associated with gender in the process. To prevent this unfortunate consequence, this text concludes by taking up elements of various feminist philosophies that permit a more complex conception of what gender is.
Keywords: Gender; Metaphysics; Functionalism; Body image; Desire
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Mc Manus, S. G. (2020). Towards a new gender metaphysics. Debate Feminista, 60. https://doi.org/10.22201/cieg.2594066xe.2020.60.03
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Guerrero Mc Manus, Siobhan. (2019). Transgeneridad y transrracialidad: contrastes ontológicos entre género y raza. Diánoia. Revista de Filosofía, 64(82), 3-30.
Haslanger, Sally. (2000). Gender and Race: (What) are they? (What) do we want them to be? Noûs, 34(1), 31-55.
Haslanger, Sally. (2003). Social Construction: the “Debunking” Project. En Frederick F. Schmitt (comp.), Socializing Metaphysics: The Nature of Social Reality (301-326). Nueva York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Haslanger, Sally. (2011). Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground. En Charlotte Witt (comp.), Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self (vol. 6) (pp. 179-207). Amsterdam: Springer Netherlands.
Korsgaard, Christine. M. (2009). Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Latour, Bruno. (1987). Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
LeGates, Marlene. (2001). In their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society. Nueva York: Routledge.
Massumi, Brian. (2002). Parables for the Virtual. Durham: Duke University Press.
Mc Manus, Fabrizzio. (2012). The Structure of Explanations and Counter-Explanations of Homosexuality. The Open Journal of Philosophy, 2(4), 235-243.
Mikkola, Mary. (2011). Ontological Commitments, Sex and Gender. En Feminist Metaphysics (pp. 67-83). Amsterdam: Springer Netherlands.
Millikan, Ruth. G. (1989). An Ambiguity in the Notion “Function”. Biology and Philosophy, 4(2), 172-176.
Poe, Danielle. (2011). Can Luce Irigaray’s Notion of Sexual Difference be applied to Transsexual and Transgender Narratives. Thinking with Irigaray, 111-130.
Pons Rabasa, Alba. (2019). Desafíos epistemológicos en la investigación feminista: hacia una teoría encarnada del afecto. Debate Feminista, 57, 134-155.
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