Gender identity : what it is and why it matters / Rach Cosker-Rowland.
| Author/creator | Cosker-Rowland, Rach author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The subjective fit account of gender identity -- Four virtues of the subjective fit account -- Gender identities and respect -- Objections -- Freedom of gender -- Other gender freedoms and alternative approaches -- Rights to gender-affirming healthcare -- Trans rights to puberty blockers -- Trans rights in sport -- The wrongs of misgendering -- Gender critical objections -- Skepticism about gender identity: does gender identity really matter? |
| Abstract | "What It Is and Why It Matters is the first book in philosophy focusing on gender identity and transgender rights. To be trans is to have a gender identity different from the gender you were assigned at birth. But what is it to have a gender identity? The first part of the book develops a new account of our gender identities as the genders that seems to us to fit us. This subjective fit account of gender identity fits with trans testimony, explains why gender identities deserve respect, explains how we can discover our gender identity, explains why gender identities are practically important, and provides a good account of both cis and trans and non-binary and binary gender identities. The second part of the book develops a new view of trans rights to gender marker change, legal gender recognition, gender-affirming healthcare, and sporting participation and accommodation. It develops an integrity-based account on which these trans rights arise from basic liberal rights to live with integrity, to live in line with your judgments of how you ought to live, and what a good or meaning life for you involves. Rights to live with integrity ground basic liberal rights to freedom of religious belief and expression. This book argues that they also ground trans rights. The second part of the book also addresses a wide range of gender-critical feminist philosophers' arguments against trans rights and shows that these arguments fail"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Cosker-Rowland, Rach. Gender identity. London : Oxford University Press [2025] 9780198947998 |
| LCCN | 2025931397 |
| ISBN | 9780198947981 hardback |
| ISBN | 0198947984 hardback |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000232565 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HQ18.55 .C68 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |