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What Gender Should Be

What is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings.
Developing an explicitly political version of conceptual engineering, What Gender Should Be contains novel and powerful arguments both against existing theories of gender such as family resemblance accounts and against gender abolition, underlining how each is insufficient for thinking about and doing justice to contemporary transgender identities and politics. Instead, Matthew J. Cull argues that we should be pluralists about gender, putting forward and advocating for a position that is more apt for contemporary transgender and feminist activism. The 21st century requires a new way of thinking about gender. What Gender Should Be sets out to provide it.

 

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-gender-should-be-9781350328983/

Books in Progress

Transgender Philosophy: The Basics

Monograph under contract with Routledge

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Philosophy in a Time of Panic: Essays from the Crisis in Trans Politics

Co-edited with Katharine Jenkins and Alexis Davin

Forthcoming

  • “Caring for Everyone: Effective and Inclusive Communication in Perinatal Care” Hypatia. (Co-authored with Fiona Woollard and Jules Holroyd)

  • “Ideal Theory, Literary Theory: Whither Transfeminism?” in Hilkje C. Hänel and Johanna Müller (eds) Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory. London: Routledge.

  • “If You Sell Out You’re Not a Skateboarder: as Critical Social Kind” Joshua Heter and Josef Thomas Simpson (eds). Skateboarding and Philosophy: A Brief History of Grind. Jefferson: McFarland.

2024

2023

2022

  • “Demarcating the Social World with Hume” Philosophical Papers 51(1): 69-88.

  • “Three Arguments Against Constitutive Norm Accounts of Assertion” Disputatio 14(64): 27-40.

  • "Epistemic Injustice and Trans Lives" in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Volume 2 Oxford University Press.

  • “Towards a Queer Realism. Review of Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System by Christopher Chitty” Women, Gender, and Research.

2021

  • “Engineering is not a Luxury: Black Feminists and Logical Positivists on Conceptual Engineering” Inquiry Vol 64

2020

  • “Dismissive Incomprehension Revisited: Testimonial Injustice, Saving Face, and Silence.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Volume 9, Issue 2 pp. 51-60.

  • “Contradiction Club: Dialetheism and the Social World” Journal of Social Ontology Volume 5, Issue 2 pp.169-180 (Co-authored with Emma Bolton).

  • “TSQ, Synthese, and What to do Next” Transgender Studies Quarterly Now Symposium on “On Being a Transamorous Man” .

2019

  • "Against Abolition" Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Volume 5, Issue 3 (2019).

  • "Dismissive Incomprehension" Social Epistemology Volume 33, Issue 3 pp. 262-271 (2019).    

  • "When Alston Met Brandom: Defining Assertion" Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio Volume 13, Issue 1 pp.19-33 (2019).

2014

  • "Can the ‘Theory of Mind’ Hypothesis Survive, Given Theoretical Insights Derived from the Study of Autism? A Response to Hacking and McGeer" Kriterion Journal of Philosophy 28:45-54 2014.

  • "An Ecofeminist Critique of Badger Culling in the Cotswolds" Journal of the Feminist Society of St Andrews 2014.

  • "What is Feminism?" Collective Reflections 1 2014.

PUBLICATIONS

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