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The Gender That is None: Some Daring Reflections on the Concept of Gender in Beauvoir, Irigaray, and Butler

  • Silvia Stoller (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitleThe Gender That is None: Some Daring Reflections on the Concept of Gender in Beauvoir, Irigaray, and Butler
ContributorSilvia Stoller (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH06
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractIn her article, “The Gender that is None: Some Daring Reflections on the Concept of Gender in Beauvoir, Irigaray, and Butler,” Silvia Stoller discusses three classics of feminist research. She aims to shed light on little-noticed parts of the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Judith Butler. Although all three are considered different theorists, they overlap at one point: one finds in their writings the idea that gender is basically not fully determinable, as in Irigaray and Butler, or that gender is basically not that important, as in Beauvoir. Whereas one expects gender theorists to foreground gender unequivocally, gender instead seems to somehow disappear, as is shown by three selected passages from their major works.
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Silvia Stoller

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Silvia Stoller is Assistant Professor (Universitätsdozentin) at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria, and at the Department of Educational Science at the University of Graz, Austria. She received her doctorate at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception (1992). She received a second PhD cum laude from Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) with a work on feminist phenomenology (2006). Her research areas include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, gender studies, feminist phenomenology, masculinity studies, and philosophical anthropology (pain, love, age, laughter, play).