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立场

“What Is Sexual Orientation?” proposes that sexual orientation is a disposition defined by the sexes and genders of the people one is disposed to engage with sexually – not by one’s own sex or gender – which makes room for orientations that do not presuppose a binary. In “Beyond Binary” Dembroff argues that genderqueer – an umbrella term for people who identify outside the categories of man and woman – is a “critical gender kind”: a kind whose members collectively destabilise a dominant gender ideology, here the binary that classifies everyone as exclusively male or female on the basis of their presumed reproductive features. Genderqueer is thus defined not by a shared appearance or inner feeling but by a felt or enacted resistance to that binary. “Escaping the Natural Attitude about Gender”, a reply to Alex Byrne’s argument that women are simply adult human females, defends social and ameliorative accounts of gender in the line of Haslanger, arguing that our gender concepts are not fixed by biology in the way the “natural attitude” assumes. “Real Men on Top” examines how patriarchy shapes social reality.

生平与背景

Robin Dembroff, who uses the pronouns they/them, studied philosophy at Biola University in California and at the University of Notre Dame and took their doctorate at Princeton University in 2017. Since then they have taught at Yale University, where they are associate professor of philosophy. Dembroff works on the metaphysics of gender and sexual orientation, on feminist and queer philosophy and on the philosophy of language, and has also written for general audiences, for example on what it means to be nonbinary. Their first book, “Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality”, appeared in 2026.

主要作品

• What Is Sexual Orientation? (2016)
• Real Talk on the Metaphysics of Gender (2018)
• Beyond Binary: Genderqueer as Critical Gender Kind (2020)
• Escaping the Natural Attitude about Gender (2021)
• Real Men on Top (2026)

出现在

• 争论 ‘什么是性别？’