Tag: Philosophy

Articles in gender & sexuality tagged with philosophy

Paisley Currah Robin Dembroff

Governing Transgender Identity

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

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M. Andler

Nonbinary Design: Making Dating Apps Queer

Apps like Tinder and OkCupid should make an ethical commitment to freeing their services from a gender binary. It would help all users, queer and straight alike.

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Mark D. Jordan

In Search of Foucault’s Last Words

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it, and what can it teach us about how Christianity shaped the modern self?

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Sharon Stone in 'Basic Instinct'
Francey Russell

What It Means to Watch

The release of a restored Basic Instinct alongside director Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic epic, Benedetta, offers an occasion to think not only about the ethics and politics of watching bodies on screen, but about the uncanny relationship between film and reality.

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Becca Rothfeld

Pleasure and Justice

Three new books explore the gap between sex that is good and sex that is virtuous, making the complexities of desire central to our conversations about sexual ethics.

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Judith Levine

Violence Has No Gender

The penalties of gender and sexual violence are not equally distributed, but psyche violence is genderless.

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