Lisa Selin Davis has posted a two-part video series to her Substack, looking at the connection between feminism and contemporary gender identity ideology. She spoke with me for Part I, and with Michael Bailey and Marco Del Giudice for Part II.
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…
Vorpolitisch meets Holly Lawford-Smith
Heute: Holly Lawford-Smith, Autorin von "Feminism Beyond Left and Right".Wir sprechen über Australien, Gender vs. Sex und die "Causa Vollbrecht".(Episode auf Englisch.)
Kate & Holly discuss Cordelia Fine's book Testosterone Rex, which won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize in 2017.
Mianne Bagger was the first transsexual woman to compete in a women's professional golf tournament. In 2022 Mianne and Holly were both guests on the SBS Insight episode 'Gender Games: Trans women and sport'. Mianne talks with Holly here about the controversial topic of the ethics of gender transition.
Holly Lawford-Smith is an Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a gender-critical feminist. She is the target of multiple ongoing campaigns by trans rights activists, who are calling for her removal from her teaching post. Posters and stickers placed around the university by the activists claim that her feminism philosophy…
Holly Lawford-Smith is an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and the author of two books, Gender-Critical Feminism and Sex Matters. In this conversation, we discuss the roots of Gender-Critical Feminism, the theory of gender as a social construct and gender as an identity, how all this potentially conflicts with women's…
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 talk to special guest Lierre Keith about Andrea Dworkin's (2000) book Scapegoat.
Sequins and sparkling jewels, pink drinks, and the year in review for gender-critical Australasia, with a sprinkling of how to not say illegal things at the end.
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.
Radical feminist perspectives is a series of webinars run by radical feminists whose voices have been cancelled or silenced in universities, schools and the media. Frustrated that we cannot share what we know in these places, we are offering this online series.
