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…
Kate & Holly try to figure out what the difference is between being gender-critical and being a gender-critical feminist.
This is a re-recording of a public lecture we gave at the University of Melbourne on December 3rd 2024.Abstract:Feminism is finished. It was a project to get women the vote; women have the vote now. It was a project to get women equal legal rights and equal pay. Women have equal legal rights…
Kate & Holly discuss Cordelia Fine's book Testosterone Rex, which won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize in 2017.
Kate & Holly discuss Mary Harrington's book Feminism Against Progress (2023).
Holly reads Gloria Steinem's short essay 'Transsexualism', first published in 1977, and later republished in her book ~Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions~ (1983).
A brief explainer of the legal case Tickle v Giggle, as at 3rd June 2023.Two notes: 1) At around 00.40 I said that Tickle claims to be legally female. Thus far he has not produced evidence to substantiate this claim. 2) Close to the end of the video, I talked about Tickle's costs being…
Holly talks to Corinna Cohn about being trans and gender-critical, especially in the earlier days of the gender-critical & gender-critical feminist movement.
Holly talks with Calvin Robinson to get a better understanding of the orthodox Christian perspective on sex, gender & feminism.
Kate & Holly discuss Judith Butler's 1993 book Bodies That Matter.
Holly talks with Renate Klein about the shift from Women's Studies to Gender Studies in universities, and about Renate's time in the Women's Studies programme at Deakin University from 1991-2002 (founded in 1982).Renate's work that is mentioned in the video:Klein, Renate. 'The 'Men-Problem' in Women's Studies: The Expert, The Ignoramus, and The Poor…
Kate & Holly discuss last week's ABC Q+A episode, which included a segment on transwomen competing in women's sport. Holly is in a very bad mood.ReferencesRoberts, Timothy., Smalley, Joshua., & Ahrendt, Dale. ‘Effect of gender affirming hormones on athletic performance in transwomen and transmen: implications for sporting organisations and legislators’, British Journal of…
Kate & Holly discuss Joanna Russ's feminist sci-fi novel 'The Female Man', published in 1975.
There's not a book called 'Left Wing Men', we're just talking about left wing men. The papers & books we discuss:Willis, Ellen. ‘Women and The Left’, Notes from the Second Year (1970), pp. 55-56. Archived.Morgan, Robin. 'Goodbye To All That' [1970], in The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches (New York: Open Road,…
Critic(al Friend) rather than critic, because that's what happens when all your opponents #nodebate you. Kate & Holly discuss Holly's new book Gender-Critical Feminism (published by Oxford University Press, in May 2022).
Kate & Holly talk to special guest Lierre Keith about Andrea Dworkin's (2000) book Scapegoat.
This is a talk about Sarah Lucia Hoagland's book 'Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value' (1988), which I prepared for an International Women's Day event in Melbourne, Australia in March 2022.ReferencesFrye, Marilyn. ‘Review: A Response to “Lesbian Ethics”’, Hypatia 5/3 (1990), pp. 132-137. Hoagland, Sarah Lucia. Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value (Palo Alto: Institute…
Kate & Holly discuss a book from 1933 (part-memoir, part-biography) about Einar Wegener (Andreas Sparre / Lile Elbe), the first person to undergo 'sex reassignment' surgery.
Kate & Holly discuss Amia Srinivasan's new book The Right To Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021).
