
Charlotte Witt, “The Metaphysics of Gender” (Oxford University Press, 2011)
New Books in Philosophy
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Is There Some Property That All and Only Men Share?
The argument in feminism went, it's socially constructed no essence. And so I started to be critical of some of these ideas. But then I noticed something else which was that these were all ways of thinking about gender being a man or being a woman. The Lockian project is to figure out classifications in the basis for classifications. It occurred to me again going back to my very first monograph that there's another notion of essentialism which doesn't have to do with criteria for kind membership.
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