Ethnographer, entrepreneur, lecturer; looking for world peace
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[AGTRT-BF22] Essentialist thinking about gender is often paradoxical and unreasonable, but it can also be moderate
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Essentialism about gender amounts to subscribing to the following four principles: Essentialism is often seen as old-fashioned in progressive circles, but it is far from gone. Indeed, we find it in a wide variety of movements. On the one hand, these include the Roman Catholic Church,…
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[AGTRT-BF21] Our middle-of-the-road approach to gender is the middle of seven flavors of gender theory
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In AGTRT-9, we listed a series of versions of gender theory and arranged them according to increasing transinclusiveness. Although instructive, said overview does not provide sufficiently useful names for the versions yet to be designed. But such names are easy to come up with if we…
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[AGTRT-BF20] What is gender anyway, and why is biological sex not sufficient?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Version 2 of this blog appeared on April 9, 2024Version 1 can be read back here Structure of this blog 1. Introduction It is unfortunate that the discussion of gender is so often flattened to the question of whether or not there are more than two…
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[AGTRT-BF19] The Roman Catholic Church has more diversity of views on gender than one might think
Jan Bergstra & Laurens Buijs Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), gender theory is a major topic that is mostly dismissed, but there are other voices. A striking example emerges in an interview in The Pillar with Cardinal Eijk. Cardinal Eijk argues that there is a multiplicity of gender theories…
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[AGTRT-BA14] Psychopaths seize power, so we need to talk more about that
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team As psychopaths in today’s age are increasingly seizing power, it is also important that we start talking more about that. I think it is helpful to look at psychopathy with a Jungian view. According to Jung, the human psyche is built on the basis of four major archetypes, or…
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[AGTRT-BF18] A new transgender law is indeed needed
Jan Bergstra & Laurens Buijs Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The election is just around the corner, but there is hardly any support for the new transgender law in the party manifestos. Only VOLT and BIJ1 make explicit their support for it. This raises the expectation that a new transgender law will not come soon.…