The Woman Question

Bibliographic Data

ID13087685
AuthorsL A Watson (0000-0001-7638-0538, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume3
Issue1-2
Pages246-253
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2328-9252 • E-ISSN: 2328-9260
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/23289252-3334451
OpenAlexW2345686376
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited2

The author was inspired to write this article in light of the ongoing and recent claims by some radical feminists that trans women are not women. This is much more than a debate among differing theoretical positions. Women have been threatened, both trans* and cis women. The vitriol on both sides is alarming and undermining of the feminism we all share. Rather than write an academic, philosophical treatise on the meaning of “woman,” the author wrote this from her first-person experience, as someone who was “born female” and identifies as a woman but is often socially read as trans* (a trans man). The author aims to articulate a radical feminist understanding of women that shows trans women are women in concrete, personal terms

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feminism · Meaning (existential · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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