Gender-Critical Feminism

✍ Scribed by Holly Lawford-Smith

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Holly Lawford-Smith argues that gender is not something to be embraced and celebrated, but a system of oppression which should be rejected. She introduces gender-critical feminism, explaining what it means to conceive of gender as norms and to be critical of gender on the basis of that understanding.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Gender-Critical Feminism
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Epigraphs Permissions
1: Introduction
1.1 Women’s Issues, from Centre to Margin
1.2 What Feminists Can Agree About
1.3 Leftist Mansplaining of Feminism
1.4 The Great Gulf of Feminism
1.5 Gender-CriticalFeminism
PART I: WHAT IS GENDER-CRITICAL FEMINISM?
2: Gender-Critical Feminism’s Radical Roots
2.1 Pre-radical:Female Socialization
2.2 The Radical Feminists of the Second Wave
2.2.1 Origin Stories
2.2.2 Sustaining Mechanisms
2.2.3 Utopias and Solutions
3: Gender-Critical Feminism
3.1 Sex Matters
3.2 Gender Norms
3.3 What Radical Feminist Ideas Does Gender-Critical Feminism Leave Behind?
3.4 The Constituency of Gender-Critical Feminism,and Its Relation to Men
3.5 Procedural Commitments
3.6 Paradigm Issues
4: The Sex Industry
4.1 Self-Ownershipas a Red Herring
4.2 What We Cannot Buy
4.3 Who and What Are Men Buying?
4.4 Policy Models
5: Trans/Gender
5.1 Gender Non-conformingWomen and Girls
5.2 Identifying into Women-OnlySpaces
5.3 Policy Implications
5.4 Is Gender-CriticalFeminism ‘Trans-Exclusionary’?
6: Why Is Gender-Critical FeminismSo Vilified?
6.1 Antagonism towards Radical and Gender-CriticalFeminists
6.2 ‘Exclusionary’ Feminism
6.3 Fundamental Moral Disagreement
6.4 Political Propaganda
6.5 Public Perception
PART II: HARD QUESTIONS FOR GENDER-CRITICALFEMINISM
7: Is Gender-Critical Feminism Intersectional?
7.1 The Roots of Oppression
7.2 Political Movement for Whole Persons
7.3 Alternative Solutions: Limited Intersectionality
7.4 Women as Women
7.5 Intersectionality as Novel Forms of Oppression
8: Is Gender-Critical Feminism Feasible?
8.1 What Does It Take for Something to be Feasible/Infeasible?
8.2 Self-FulfillingProphesies
8.3 Implicit Moral Constraints
8.4 What Does It Take for a Political Proposalto be Feasible?
8.4 What Does It Take for a Political Proposalto be Feasible?
8.5 Compatible Pathways
9: Is Gender-CriticalFeminism Liberal?
9.1 Liberalism
9.2 Liberal Feminism
9.3 Liberal Feminism and Autonomy
9.4 Gender-CriticalFeminism
9.5 Feminism with Teeth
CODA
10: A Gender-CriticalManifesto
10.1 Feminism as a Movement for Women as Women
10.2 The List
Afterword
Notes
Preliminary material
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Afterword
References
Index