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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew J. Cull , Ciara Cremin (University of Auckland New Zealand) , Abraham WeilPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350328976ISBN 10: 1350328979 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 13 June 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One - How to Engineer a Gender 1.1 Neurathian Conceptual Engineering 1.2 Constraints, Desiderata 1.3 Amelioration for Activists 1.4 The Political Efficacy Question Chapter Two - Family Resemblances: Failures of Inclusivity 2.1 Family Resemblances 2.2 Cluster Accounts 2.3 Overlapping Accounts 2.2 The Double Counting and Discrete/Continuous Problems 2.3 A Non-Binary Intervention Chapter Three - Anti-Structuralism: Performativity and Prolepsis 3.1 Initiation into Sex and Gender: Exercitives and Proleptic Mechanisms 3.2 Butler’s Positive Program 3.3 Prosser’s Critiques 3.4 The Phenomenology of Gender 3.5 Anti-Structuralism Considered Chapter Four - Deflating Gender, Deflating Self-Identification 4.1 Semantic Deflationism about Gender 4.2 Self-Identification: A Kinder Deflation 4.3 Worries for Self-Identification Deflationisms 4.4 The Triviality Dispute 4.5 A Defensible Metaphysics of Self-Identification 4.6 Semantic Quietism Chapter Five - Error and Abolition 5.1 Error Theory 5.2 Gender Abolitionism 5.3 Gender Nihilism 5.4 Transgender Identities and Abolitionism 5.5 Ideal Theory, Practical Realities 5.6 Colonialism and Abolition Chapter Six - An Alternative: Ameliorative Semantic Pluralism 6.1 Saul and Bettcher 6.2 The Ameliorative Semantic Pluralist Project 6.3 Objections to Ameliorative Semantic Pluralism 6.4 Saul’s Revenge 6.5 Down Enby: The Logic of Gender 6.6 Solidarity: Spelman to the Present Day Chapter Seven - Between Lorde and Neurath: Hermeneutic Innovation 7.1 Back to Neurath 7.2 Sweaty Concepts 7.3 A Meaning for ‘Agender’ 7.4 The Agender Agenda and Some Recent Accounts of Gender 7.5 Dembroff’s Critical Gender Kind 7.6 Jenkins’ Gender Dualism ConclusionReviewsThis is an important book. It makes a compelling case for pluralism about gender, situating this in a rich historical and philosophical context, while never losing sight of real-world trans lives, oppression, and liberation. * Jennifer Saul, Waterloo Chair in Social and Political Philosophy of Language, University of Waterloo, Canada * Author InformationMatthew J. Cull is a philosopher at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Their work covers a variety of areas in social and political philosophy, focusing in particular on feminist and transgender philosophy. Matthew's writing has previously appeared in venues such as Philosophical Papers, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and The Journal of Social Ontology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |