Introduction

Charlotte Witt

1-7

What is gender essentialism?

Charlotte Witt

11-25

Different women

gender and the realism-nominalism debate

Natalie Stoljar

27-46

The metaphysics of sex and gender

Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir

47-65

Ontological commitments, sex and gender

Mari Mikkola

67-83

Metaphors of being a Φ

Marilyn Frye

85-95

The metaphysics of relational autonomy

Jules Holroyd

99-115

Beauvoir on the allure of self-objectification

Nancy Bauer

117-129

A phenomenology of sexual difference

types, styles and persons

Sara Heinämaa

131-155

The politics and the metaphysics of experience

Marianne Janack

159-178

Ideology, generics, and common ground

Sally Haslanger

179-207

Experience and knowledge

the case of sexual abuse memories

Linda Martín Alcoff

209-223