The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

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#575: What is gender?

#575: What is gender?

Or should we even ask the question?

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Matthew Lee Anderson
May 15, 2024
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Broadly speaking, the world of ‘gender’ is divided up between the “essentialist” and “social constructionists.” The former attempt to identify a stable core of traits that are founded in biology while demarcate one gender from the other, while the latter regard gender as a product of a long process of social conditioning. In Earthen Vessels, I adopted a…

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