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Gender and the Problem of Universals:

LA124793

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Gender and the Problem of Universals:

[Article]

Catholic Mobilizations and Sexual Democracy in France

Éric Fassin

Leiden

Brill

In the 1980s, John Boswell analyzed the controversy between 'essentialists' and 'constructionists' in gay and lesbian studies in the light of the medieval 'problem of universals.' This paper revives this analogy to understand the controversy launched by Catholic authorities against the (so-called) 'theory-of-gender' pitted against gender studies at the risk of equating God with Nature. In the 1980s, John Boswell analyzed the controversy between 'essentialists' and 'constructionists' in gay and lesbian studies in the light of the medieval 'problem of universals.' This paper revives this analogy to understand the controversy launched by Catholic authorities against the (so-called) 'theory-of-gender' pitted against gender studies at the risk of equating God with Nature.

2016

173-186

Religion and Gender

6/2

1878-5417

gender studies

nature and biology

nominalism and social constructionism

realism and essentialism

sexual democracy

Theory-of-gender

universals

Éric Fassin

10.18352/rg.10157

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[Article]

275578

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