The Nature / Culture bifurcation and Radical Correlationism in “Gender Hurts: a feminist analysis of the politics of transgenderism”

Abstract

This article was aims to analyze the work “Gender Hurts: a feminist analysis of the politics of transgenderism”, by Sheila Jeffreys, based on criticisms on correlationism, by Quentin Meillassoux and the notes on the bifurcation of nature and culture raised by Bruno Latour. Based on this objective, first, a brief summary of the work is presented, in which the main foundations of the author's thesis are presented. Then, the concepts of gender and transgenderism, key points of the book, are presented and related to the central ideas of correlationist-based philosophies. Furthermore, it seeks to demonstrate how both gender and transgenderism appears in the work as bifurcated concepts. Finally, we suggest some authors who can help thinking about gender issues outside either from a correlationist paradigm, or from a bifurcated concept.