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915Feminist perspectives on sex and genderStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.Feminism is the movement to end women’s oppression. One possible way to understand ‘woman’ in this claim is to take it as a sex term: ‘woman’ picks out human females and being a human female depends on various anatomical features (like genitalia). Historically many feminists have understood ‘woman’ differently: not as a sex term, but as a gender term that depends on social and cultural factors (like social position). In so doing, they distinguished sex (being female or male) from gender (being a…Read more
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57Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays, edited by H.Maes and J.Levinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 344 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐960958‐1 hb £35 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 22 (S2): 15-21. 2014.
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222Illocution, silencing and the act of refusalPacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (3): 415-437. 2011.Rae Langton and Jennifer Hornsby argue that there may be a free-speech argument against pornography, if pornographic speech has the power to illocutionarily silence women: women's locution ‘No!’ that aims to refuse unwanted sex may misfire because pornography creates communicative conditions where the locution does not count as a refusal. Central to this is the view that women's speech lacks uptake, which is necessary for illocutionary acts like that of refusal. Alexander Bird has critiqued this…Read more
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