Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-6494
Date of Award
5-8-2020
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Christie Hartley
Second Advisor
S.M. Love
Abstract
Gender identity is usually thought of in psychologistic terms. But thinking about gender identity in this way often undermines the political and social agencies of queer and trans individuals who rely on the concept the most. To ameliorate this problem, I argue that we should endorse a conceptual distinction between gender identity and what I call gender orientation. The former is an agent’s sincerely self-ascribed gender categorization(s), and the latter is an agent’s psychological relation to gendered social practices.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/17492330
Recommended Citation
Newman, Avery, "Towards a Distinction between Gender Identity and Gender Orientation." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2020.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/17492330
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