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The Gender Paradigm with Abigail Favale

Life and Books and Everything

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The Inconsistency of the Essentialist Narrative in Feminist Theory

One of the worst things you could be in feminist theory is an essentialist. Someone who believes that there's an essence, a nature, there's an is-ness. And yet talk about the inconsistency or certainly seeming inconsistency with the trans movement. How do we get from basically gender is a social construct to gender is profoundly real? Because those are two very different concepts.

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