Gender-Critical Feminism

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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. 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