Response-Dependence, Misgendering, and Passing: A Comment on Ásta’s Categories We Live By

Authors

  • Esa Díaz-León University of Barcelona

Keywords:

conferralism, gender, response-dependence, misgendering, passing

Abstract

This comment on Ásta’s Categories we live by: the construction of sex, gender, race, and other social categories discusses Ásta’s arguments that the conferralist view on social properties does better than a response-dependence view concerning gender. Her key argument is that a response-dependence does not allow for mistakes. This comment tries to show that a response-dependence view can accommodate misgendering and passing.

References

Ásta (2018). Categories We Live By. The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Published

2022-03-01

How to Cite

Díaz-León, Esa. 2022. “Response-Dependence, Misgendering, and Passing: A Comment on Ásta’s Categories We Live By”. Journal of Social Ontology 5 (2). Vienna, Austria:245-49. https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6785.

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Book Symposium