Culture, humanities & social science
The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century
By Edward Schiappa, the John E. Burchard Professor of the Humanities
Routledge · 2021
At no other point in human history have the definitions of "woman" and "man," "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," been more contentious. This book advances a pragmatic approach to the act of defining and acknowledging the important ethical dimensions of our definitional practices. Schiappa's timely intervention examines sites of debate including schools, bathrooms, the military, sports, prisons, and feminism, drawing attention to the political, practical, and ethical dimensions of the act of defining itself.
From Summer 2022 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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