Gender can be distinguished from sex and nature without dualism

Evidence

Gender has often been understood as pure culture, as if the body were irrelevant. But the alternative is not to treat it as indistinguishable from either nature (sex) or culture. The distinction may still be useful and viable if treated in non-dualistic ways, and can be used to provide some sensitivity to social and cultural context. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 762

Categorization

• XREF: Extends and complicates Merchant’s ecofeminist argument and this book’s ch earlier chapters — gender theorized non-dualistically is exactly the analytic move the Eco-Justice/Ecofeminism polyad needs over the simple women=nature position. — connects to: Rejecting nature-culture dualism improves feminist accounts of reproduction — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 162; Reworking gender needs both transcendence and affirmation of identity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 255; Ending gender dualism needs both continuity and difference recognition. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 263 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Gender is constructed meaning assigned to sex, not given by biology #corroborates (0.80) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 673
• Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike #expands (0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465
• Biological sex is a continuum rather than a strict binary #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1032
• Gender is social structure while sex is genetic endowment #corroborates (0.75)
• Biology gives no basis for gendered immanence and transcendence allegories #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 87