Day: April 9, 2024
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[AGTRT-BF76] Science still struggles with gender, self-identification is not everything
This article appeared in slightly modified form on March 20, 2023 in NRC UvA professor Jan Willem Duyvendak calls my criticism of non-binary gender in an opinion piece in NRC (March 1, 2023) “unscientific” and “politically motivated” (see also AGTRT-BF6). But in reality, current gender scholarship is precisely so ideological that all kinds of excesses…
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[AGTRT-BF75] The Dutch language is deficient for gender theory, and must be expanded to include male and female
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Gender theory in Dutch ends up being too difficult a translation job, it turns out. We can think of little else but to propose that Dutch be expanded. In addition to gender, male and female could also be used as part of Dutch, and we propose…