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Holly Lawford-Smith

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Videos

The Philosophy of Feminism

I've just finished recording a video lecture series based on my now-retired University of Melbourne second-year undergraduate course 'Feminism'. I called it 'The Philosophy of Feminism' (to make clear that we'll be considering feminist ideas from the disciplinary perspective of philosophy). The playlist is here; the final lecture premiered on Sunday 9th November at 7pm…
August 15, 20250Comments

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Videos

Feminist Heretics | Daphna Joel & Cordelia Fine | MAN/WOMAN: Are there two types of persons?

Holly talks with neuroscientist Professor Daphna Joel and psychologist Professor Cordelia Fine about the idea that there are two types of persons (masculine/feminine, or man/woman, depending on your preferred terminology). Holly asks Cordelia about her work on social/cultural and hormonal explanations of sex differences, and Daphna about her work on whether there are male and…
April 11, 20250Comments

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#GC/F Bibliography

Gender-Critical & Gender-Critical Feminist Peer-Reviewed Literature

[Last updated 31st October 2024. If you’ve just had something accepted, or you know of something that should be on the list but isn’t, just send me an email.]Anderson, Lynley., Knox, Taryn., & Heather, Alison. ‘Trans-athletes in elite sport: inclusion and fairness‘, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 3/6 (2019), pp. 759-762.Asteriti, Alessandra., & Bull, Rebecca.…
April 3, 20250Comments

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Books

Feminism Beyond Left and Right (2025)

An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the interests of minorities and is for that reason owed the allegiance of minorities. This, in turn, gives rise to the sense of dissonance created by right-wing dissenters―the black social conservative, the gay ultra-nationalist,…
April 3, 20250Comments

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