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Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Philosophy

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

Becca Rothfeld

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

Robin Dembroff, Paisley Currah

Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.

M. Andler

Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?

Mark D. Jordan

On the uncanny relationship between film and reality.

Francey Russell

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

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

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