Charlotte Witt, “The Metaphysics of Gender” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
New Books in Philosophy
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What Kind of Individual Are We Talking About?
Gender is a social position that has a social role associated with it. And there's a set of norms associated with these social positions. The entity that occupies the social positions and comes under the gender norms are social individuals. How do you become unified as a social agent given that you occupy all these different positions with all these different sets of norms? You have to follow a path of social activity through them as it were and act in a unified way. As Christine Korskard says about practical identity you've got to go one way or the other but you're standing under possibly inconsistent norms multiple norms both at a time and through time. Right.
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