scholarly journals The Logic of Misandrogyny

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff M Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Binary ◽  
Binary Section ◽  
Binary Gender

This paper develops an account of misandrogyny that is modeled on Kate Manne's account of misogyny. On Manne's view, misogyny is a system of mechanisms that together police and enforce the gendered hierarchy of a patriarchal order. On the account developed here, misandrogyny is a system of mechanisms that together police and enforce the gender binary of a patriarchal order. The gender binary is constituted by norms that preclude the existence of persons who aren't consistently 'read' either as a man (and only a man) or as a woman (and only a woman). Misandrogyny thus polices and enforces the nonexistence of people who are neither women (only) nor men (only). After some clarifying preliminaries, section 1 describes mechanisms of misandrogyny that push individuals into specific binary gender positions; section 2 describes structures and institutions that compel gender non-conforming people to assimilate to the gender binary; section 3 describes mechanisms that target gender non-conforming persons for fatal violence. 

Nonbinary Gender Identities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hegarty ◽  
Y. Gavriel Ansara ◽  
Meg-John Barker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Health Culture ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Nonbinary Gender ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
Binary Options ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
Binary Gender

This chapter concerns nonbinary genders; identities and roles between or beyond gender categories such as the binary options ‘women and men,’ for example. We review the emerging literature on people who do not identify with such binary gender schemes, unpack the often-implicit logic of thinking about others through the lens of gender binary schemes, and briefly describe some other less-researched, but longstanding cultural gender systems which recognize nonbinary genders. This chapter makes the case that consideration of nonbinary genders is germane to several core topics in psychology including identity, mental health, culture, social norms, language, and cognition.

Reviewing non-binary: where have we come from?

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-44
Author(s):  
Ben Vincent
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Binary Gender

Chapter one maps out the scholastic terrain relevant to a sociological consideration of non-binary gender identities. This is divided into three main areas. The first of these covers the relationship between gender diversity and medical practice, the second re-examines older sociological research which didn’t have the specific concept of non-binary, but acknowledged and engaged with people and identities (though often only implicitly) that challenged the gender binary. The third section covers interdisciplinary, 21st century recognition of non-binary people.

scholarly journals Singular ‘they’ and novel pronouns: gender-neutral, nonbinary, or both?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan D. Bradley ◽  
Julia Salkind ◽  
Ally Moore ◽  
Sofi Teitsort
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Binary Gender

Pronouns have recently become a highly visible aspect of the LGBTQ+ movement among the general public and in linguistics. We investigated whether singular, specific ‘they’ and the novel singular gender-neutral pronoun ‘ze’ are interpreted as gender-neutral (slient on gender and the gender binary) or or referring specifically to referents of non-binary gender. Participants read descriptions of scholarship applicants, and guessed which photo matched the applicant they read about from an array of male, female, and non-binary subjects. Results suggest that ‘they’ is interpreted as gender-neutral, including non-binary/gender-nonconforming referents. ‘Ze’ does not appear to be recognized by enough English speakers to determine a definitive interpretation.

Trans Theory and Gender Identity in Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alden Jones
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Binary Gender

Trans theory is a set of ideas, tools, contestations, divergences, and investments in gender(s) in and beyond the gender binary of male and female as it is understood in Western contexts. Gender identity is, in part, an individual’s gendered sense of self. Both transgender theory and gender identity are implicated by and concerned with education given the relative (in)visibility of transgressive or variant genders. Educational spaces are concerned with gender since they are one of many socializing and normalizing structures that seek to instill binary genders. Trans theory and gender identity are understood in educational spaces as additive to the social norm of binary gender, though both the theory and the concept ultimately elucidate the need for a reexamination of what gender is and what it does, as well as to and for whom.

Abolishing gender registration: A feminist defence

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Braunschweig
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
The Will ◽  
Binary Gender

This article argues in favour of the abolition of gender markers on identity documents. Its main goal is to assess the emancipatory dimension of such a proposition not only for gender minorities but also for individuals who recognise themselves within traditional gender identities. I first discuss the discriminations resulting from the practices of binary gender registration for intersex children, trans persons, and non-conforming individuals. Then, I look at the different deadlocks ensuing from the most popular remedy to those discriminations that loosen gender binary by adding one or more registration options. I go on to argue that those should lead us to advocate for the abolition of gender registration as a “transformative remedy” (Fraser, 1995) for the harmful consequences of normative gender regulations and as a way to integrate the queer conception of identity within a debate about institutional change and public policy. Such a proposition however raises question for feminist politics, since identity categories are also tools to achieve rights, equality and reparation on the basis of group oppression and specific shared situations. Yet, degendering civil registration could be part of a broader claim to a renewed conception of neutrality, not the liberal gender blindness, famously criticised by feminists but a neutrality critically reconstructed as non-assignation. This alternative neutrality would ask the collective not to assign its members to predetermined identities, to try and suspend the will to institutionally identify individuals according to collective categories and to construct distinctive groups.

Gender kaleidoscope: Diffracting legal approaches to reform gender binary

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Venditti
Keyword(s):  
Conservative System ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Gender Status ◽  
Binary Gender ◽  
Legal Processes

<p>This article explores the import of current gender legal reforms. Through analysis of legal processes of self-determination and inclusion of non-binary gender labels, it critiques the hypostatizing tendency that marks our current understanding of gender and limits the scope of legal reforms. My insight is that reforms of legal gender status are bound to reproduce a conservative system of recognition because they rely on a substantialised conception of gender, one that frames gender as a given entity (or a given set of entities) along which our identities organise. In the conclusion, I discuss alternative forms of conceiving legal gender, gesturing toward a more relational and multifarious legal approach.</p>

scholarly journals Transcending the gender binary: Gender non-binary young adults in Amsterdam

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
Afiah Vijlbrief ◽  
Sawitri Saharso ◽  
Halleh Ghorashi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Binary Gender

scholarly journals The Colonial Project of Gender (and Everything Else)

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Sandy O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Religious Ideals ◽  
And Gender

The gender binary, like many colonial acts, remains trapped within socio-religious ideals of colonisation that then frame ongoing relationships and restrict the existence of Indigenous peoples. In this article, the colonial project of denying difference in gender and gender diversity within Indigenous peoples is explored as a complex erasure casting aside every aspect of identity and replacing it with a simulacrum of the coloniser. In examining these erasures, this article explores how diverse Indigenous gender presentations remain incomprehensible to the colonial mind, and how reinstatements of kinship and truth in representation fundamentally supports First Nations’ agency by challenging colonial reductions. This article focuses on why these colonial practices were deemed necessary at the time of invasion, and how they continue to be forcefully applied in managing Indigenous peoples into a colonial structure of family, gender, and everything else.

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