Concept
Gender
Overview
social concept which distinguish the different gender categories
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According to psychoanalysis, it rather seems that it is the independence of the object, selection of the sex of the object, the same free disposal over male and female objects, as observed in childhood, in primitive states and in prehistoric times, which forms the origin from which the normal as well as the inversion types developed, following restrictions in this or that direction.
Sigmund Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
Close in meaning to Gender; the term itself is not named.
The stars, however, are also said to be masculine and feminine, by their positions with regard to the Sun. While they are matutine and preceding the Sun, they are masculine; when vespertine and following the Sun, they become feminine.[30] And they are further regulated in this respect by their positions with regard to the horizon. From the ascendant to the mid-heaven, or from the angle of the west to the lower…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
States what Gender is; names Gender.
When the form of the expression does not clearly show whether the general name which is the subject of the proposition is meant to stand for all the individuals denoted by it, or only for some of them, the proposition is, by some logicians, called Indefinite; but this, as Archbishop Whately observes, is a solecism, of the same nature as that committed by some grammarians when in their list of genders they enumerate…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
States what Gender is; names Gender twice.
Philosophers who discussed Gender
- Feminism
- Judith Butler
- Bell hooks
- Nancy Fraser
- Charles Fourier
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- Cornel West
- Islam
- Shrimad Rajchandra
- Avital Ronell
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Sally Haslanger
- Susan Bordo
- Heloise
- FM-2030
- Elizabeth Grosz
Related ideas
- Parvati
- Feminist theory
- Ethnicity
- French language
- History
- Feminism
- Anglo-Norman language
- Persian language
- Germany
- German language
- Greek language
- Gender equality
- Grammatical gender
- Hinduism
- Hungarian language
- Yin and yang
- India
- Indonesia
- Indo-European languages
- Judith Butler
- Interdisciplinarity
- Judaism
- Correlation
- Jacques Lacan
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.