Matthew J. Cull - Böcker

Transgender Philosophy: The Basics is an introduction to the exciting and rapidly growing world of trans philosophy.The book covers a wide range of central themes in transgender philosophy, bringing the reader up to speed with both foundational texts and new ideas from this increasingly global tradition. It addresses key questions, including:• What is gender? How is it related to gender identity?• Why are we justified in believing someone when they identify as a member of a gender?• Why do trans people transition, and how should we think about the desire to transition?• What is the relationship between transness and colonialism, and how is it related to race?• Should we get rid of gender? What would we look like if we didn’t have genders?• How should society be changed to improve the lives of trans people?Accessibly written, this book offers a rigorous overview of the arguments in transgender philosophy, from abstract concerns of philosophical method to grounded and applied political issues.Transgender Philosophy is designed for beginners with no prior knowledge of philosophy, but it also serves a source of new insights and perspectives for students and scholars of philosophy and gender studies.

Transgender Philosophy: The Basics is an introduction to the exciting and rapidly growing world of trans philosophy.The book covers a wide range of central themes in transgender philosophy, bringing the reader up to speed with both foundational texts and new ideas from this increasingly global tradition. It addresses key questions, including:• What is gender? How is it related to gender identity?• Why are we justified in believing someone when they identify as a member of a gender?• Why do trans people transition, and how should we think about the desire to transition?• What is the relationship between transness and colonialism, and how is it related to race?• Should we get rid of gender? What would we look like if we didn’t have genders?• How should society be changed to improve the lives of trans people?Accessibly written, this book offers a rigorous overview of the arguments in transgender philosophy, from abstract concerns of philosophical method to grounded and applied political issues.Transgender Philosophy is designed for beginners with no prior knowledge of philosophy, but it also serves a source of new insights and perspectives for students and scholars of philosophy and gender studies.

What is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings. Developing an explicitly political version of conceptual engineering, What Gender Should Be contains novel and powerful arguments both against existing theories of gender such as family resemblance accounts and against gender abolition, underlining how each is insufficient for thinking about and doing justice to contemporary transgender identities and politics. Instead, Matthew J. Cull argues that we should be pluralists about gender, putting forward and advocating for a position that is more apt for contemporary transgender and feminist activism. The 21st century requires a new way of thinking about gender. What Gender Should Be sets out to provide it.