The gender paradox

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The Gender Paradox is the title of a non-fiction book published in 2016 by the German evolutionary biologist Ulrich Kutschera . It bears the subtitle man and woman as evolved types of people . The author traces the social constructivist gender theory back to the writings of the American psychologist John Money and would like to refute the thesis about the existence of a psychosocial gender that exists independently of biological gender .

content

The book contains 445 printed pages (with 75 illustrations) and consists of the following ten chapters: 1. Introduction: What is sex? Darwinian Feminism and Moneyist Gender Ideology; 2. Surrogate mother - human discipline , gender creationism, and the ideologization of biology ; 3. Alfred Russel Wallace as a women's rights activist and Hessian gender studies in action; 4. The Schopenhauer-Darwinian analysis of women, academic gender women 2015 and male heredity; August 5th Weismann's Freiburg sex theory and the Neo-Darwinian equality of men and women; 6. From physique to genome: man and woman as evolved human types with pronounced sexual dimorphism; 7. Gender-specific embryos, the behavior of toddlers and the pre-natally determined erotic disposition; 8. Forced gender identity: David Reimer (1965–2004) as a victim on the altar of the Moneyist gender religion 2015; 9. The Berlin Gender Debate 2015 and the vegetable super homosexual; 10. Epilogue: Gender Biomedicine and the Psychological Terror of Moneyist Indoctrinated Men-Women

In the last chapter (10) the main results of the main text are summarized with reference to the theses of Judith Butler . a. the question of why there are no “ cathouses for women” (with male service providers) is discussed in detail. The book ends with a glossary (Little Sex & Gender ABC); all key terms, from anisogamy to zygote , are briefly defined there.

History of origin

In the foreword, the author explains why he wrote this work, emphasizing that the text is based on the 4th edition of his textbook Evolutionary Biology (2015). After Kutschera published a provocative short article on gender issues with the title “University Pseudoscience” in the Humanist Press Service (hpd) on April 13, 2015 , which was then blocked by the hpd, a series of media inquiries began. In an article on Spiegel Online of September 4, 2015 with the title “Professor against Gender Research”, Kutschera announced a book on the gender paradox for the beginning of 2016; He will thus "drive the last nails into the coffin of gender ideology." The first edition appeared in February 2016, a new edition with additional content came on the market in early 2018. In the foreword of the second edition, Kutschera refers to the freedom of science in order to justify his controversial theses.

reception

The Freiburg biologist Hubert Rehm published a detailed review in the journal Spektrum der Wissenschaft . He characterizes the book as "informative and entertaining", but nevertheless sees a number of weaknesses in terms of content. The biology historian Armin Geus reviewed the second edition of Kutschera's non-fiction book in the right-wing populist blog Philosophia perennis in positive terms and describes the work as a "reliable, source-based manual that nobody should do without who seriously wants to participate in the (gender) debate."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University pseudoscience, from April 13, 2015 , in: evolutionsbiologen.de, accessed on June 12, 2019
  2. ↑ Ulrich Kutschera, the hpd and the "Zensur", from June 2, 2015 , in: hdp, accessed on June 12, 2019
  3. ↑ Professor against Gender Research, September 4, 2015 , in: Spiegel Online, accessed on June 12, 2019
  4. ↑ Hubert Rehm: Dangerous Ideology, from June 24, 2016 , in: Spektrum.de, accessed on June 12, 2019
  5. ↑ Armin Geus: Aggressive combat emancies and illegal research results, from May 26, 2018 , in: PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS, accessed on June 12, 2019