Filosofie & Praktijk - Current Issue

Abstract Antigender ideologues argue that gender identity is a phantasy and that ‘sex’ is the rock bottom of who we are. Even some feminists take a ‘gender critical’ position. These thinkers oppose phantasy to reality and hold oversimplified ideas about the embodiment of gender. I argue for an understanding of gender in which imagination plays a role, but that does not have a simple referent: gender as narrative. My inspiration Read More

Abstract This article takes as its starting point the controversy around the assumed sex of boxer Imane Khelif during the 2024 Summer Olympics to consider the history of sex tests in the Olympic Games. This history shows us that when unruly bodies that cannot conform to a binary notion of sex emerge, people start to look for signifiers of sex on different locations on or in the body: from secondary and primary sex characteristics Read More