Author: Laurens Buijs
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![[AGTRT-BF63] Rach Cosker-Rowland explores possible links between gender identity and gender categorization](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cf4b1-hegheg.png)
[AGTRT-BF63] Rach Cosker-Rowland explores possible links between gender identity and gender categorization
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction In our last blog, we noted that the concept of gender identity in gender studies is surrounded by questions and ambiguity. We will therefore take a closer look at this concept in a series of blogs. One of the questions…
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![[AGTRT-BF62] For now, the concept of gender identity provides more questions than answers, but concept engineering offers perspective here as well](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/530c4-genderident.png)
[AGTRT-BF62] For now, the concept of gender identity provides more questions than answers, but concept engineering offers perspective here as well
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction We want to start focusing more on gender identity in a number of blogs. Reasons to take a closer look at gender identity abound. Although certainly in progressive circles it is quickly assumed that this concept has a clear meaning…
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![[AGTRT-BF61] Rach Cosker-Rowland’s fitting treatment account (FTA) has value for the concept engineering of formal gender](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e2857-rcr2.jpeg)
[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](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6c457-rowlw.jpg)
[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](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/64b69-par.jpg)
[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…