Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions

ISBN-13: 9781509560011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Alex Byrne

Recenzje

"A refreshingly clarifying and forthright take on the philosophy of gender activism, cutting through the noise with incisiveness and wit. Anyone interested in the gender wars needs to read it."Kathleen Stock, author of Material Girls"Alex Byrne's Trouble with Gender is an admirably clear and rigorous book that outlines the major parameters of what is often an off-kilter discussion. Combining philosophy and science with an eye for how issues of sex and gender are discussed in the media, Byrne gives the reader a lesson not only in how to think about these specific issues, but also in how to think at all."Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman and What Do Men Want?"Current academic discussions of sex and gender are dominated by advocates, dogmatists, poseurs, and obscurantists. Trouble with Gender offers a lucid, rigorous and judicious guide to the perplexed. It's an antidote to irrationality and also a pleasure to read."Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism?

Spis treści

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Gender, Double Toil and TroubleChapter 2: 'Gender' TroubleChapter 3: Clownfish and ChromosomesChapter 4: I am WomanChapter 5: The Rise of Gender IdentityChapter 6: Born in the Wrong BodyChapter 7: Is Biology Destiny?Chapter 8: True Selves and Identity CrisesCodaAcknowledgementsBibliographyNotesIndex

O autorze

Alex Byrne is Professor of Philosophy at MIT.