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[AGTRT-BF61] Rach Cosker-Rowland’s fitting treatment account (FTA) has value for the concept engineering of formal gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research TeamPhoto: Rach Cosker-Rowland Structure of this blog 1. Introduction In The Normativity of Gender (2024) appeared an extensive reflection by philosopher Rach Cosker-Rowland (University of Leeds) on the concept of gender. This text is distinctly difficult to read. It is a form of applied philosophy that looks…
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[AGTRT-BF60] The battle between Rowling and Willoughby in 12 points
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In recent days, the news in the United Kingdom has again been full of gender. This time the trigger was the fact that Harry Potter writer and feminist J.K. Rowling had deliberately “misgendered” a well-known transgender TV personality, India Willoughby. In other words: Rowling spoke of…
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[AGTRT-BF59] Formal gender theory (FGT) as a starting point for theoretical sexology
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research TeamArt: Helen Beard We established in AGTRT-BF57 that it can be useful to view FGT as a starting point for theory of sexuality (and thus just not the other way around). The question then is what you could gain from that. To move forward with this, a…
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[AGTRT-BF58] Pargender theory: a new strand of theoretical sexology
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction This week there was another fuss about gender in political Hague: an SGP operative found in a so-called “compilation bill” that the government intended to change the term “mother” in the population register to “parent from whom the child was…
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[AGTRT-BF57] Gender theory abstracts from sexuality, offering opportunities for new theorizing about sexuality
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction With the concepts of man and woman, of course, the notion of sex is always close, regardless of sexual orientation. And yet sexuality plays no significant role in gender theory, at least not in the last 30 years. In gender…
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[AGTRT-BF56] How can concept engineering of the concept of formal gender help eliminate polarization in the debate?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction We have recently devoted much energy to developing the concept of “formal gender” through our Formal Gender Theory (FGT, see also gender-theory.org/ and blog AGTRT-BF8). We have also described a method called ICE(incremental concept engineering), which allows the concept formal…