JBSP Online: Book review – Ephraim Das Janssen’s Phenomenal Gender

journal update

Available now at T&F Online, Juliette Christine Gruner’s review of a new book by Ephraim Das Janssen for the JBSP.

Juliette Christine Gruner – Book Review: ‘Phenomenal Gender: What Transgender Experience Discloses by Ephraim Das Janssen’ [Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2017]. (Review originally published online: 15 November 2021).

Opening: While transgender studies and philosophy intersect on occasion, there are few books that focus on the ontology of gender while also taking transgender experience into account. Phenomenal Gender does both by supplementing the canonical thinkers of gender, like Foucault and Butler, with an approach drawing on Heideggerian phenomenology.

Full article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2021.2002423

Juliette Christine Gruner, Newcastle University

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