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Gender Theory Is Wrong
Author: Paul Tyson
language: en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2026-01-30
In recent decades gender identity theory has surged from queer obscurity to mainstream prominence. The basic idea is that “gender” is a personal and performative identity category, and one’s “sex” is defined by one’s gender, not the other way around. Further, this is not just a theory, it is a political and moral imperative. In the cause of justice for the marginal and a diverse and inclusive utopia, we must now discard oppressive and supposedly “objective” commonsense conventions premised on the male/female sex binary. Thus, gender theory, in the form it has now come to be understood, purports to justify the tearing up of sex-defined gender norms and outlaws sex-based rights for women and girls. But where does this theory come from? Is it persuasive? Gender theory is the intellectual progeny of Kant’s Enlightenment. While modern and postmodern philosophy after Kant really is persuasive if one accepts Kant’s purity agenda, by now it is clear that this pathway leads to madness. Purifying science from faith, and purifying reason from metaphysics, leads to the inability to tell the difference between a man and a woman. This book seeks to show the reader why Kant was wrong and why gender theory is wrong.
Streaming Europe
Streaming Europe explores how global streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video have reshaped the audiovisual landscape across Europe. Since Netflix’s arrival in 2012, the European media environment has undergone a rapid transformation, affecting every level of the industry—from production and distribution to policy and audience engagement. This book offers the first comprehensive, empirical, and comparative examination of these changes across different European markets. Written by a team of leading media scholars, it balances accessible analysis with evidence-based insights to examine how streamers have altered production practices and business models, shifted established power dynamics, and challenged long-standing broadcasting legacies. The book examines global streamers’ market-entry strategies, the use of diversity and inclusion as competitive positioning, and the tensions between producers over rights retention and local authenticity. It analyses how public and commercial broadcasters across large and small European markets have both emulated Netflix and sought to differentiate themselves from US streamers, and how governments have responded with a patchwork of policy tools such as prominence regulation, quotas, and investment obligations, raising questions about their long-term effectiveness. Finally, it explores how different genres—including teen drama, documentary, European film, scripted television, and web series—both shape and are shaped by global streamers’ evolving strategies. With its strong foundation in research and pan-European scope, Streaming Europe goes beyond single-country perspectives to present a timely and nuanced understanding of how the streaming revolution is shaping Europe’s cultural industries. It will be highly relevant to researchers in the field of media industries, media economics, audiovisual industries, and media policy.
Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction
Author: Patrick B Sharp
language: en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date: 2018-03-28
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of women’s SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War. Tracing the tradition of women’s SF back to the 1600s, the author demonstrates how women such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Shelley drew critical attention to the colonial mindset of scientific masculinity, which was attached to scientific institutions that excluded women. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection provided an impetus for a number of first-wave feminists to imagine Amazonian worlds where women control their own bodies, relationships and destinies. Patrick B. Sharp traces how these feminist visions of scientific femininity, Amazonian power and evolutionary progress proved influential on many women publishing in the SF magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and presents a compelling picture of the emergence to prominence of feminist SF in the early twentieth century before vanishing until the 1960s.