Most of us have Male or Female registered on our birth certificates - but what does this certification mean, in terms of its effect on our lives? There are many other things about us that have at least as much significance as our gender - our sexuality, our ethnicity - but only gender has legal status. This week we're talking about the pros and cons of uncoupling gender from the law.
Guest: Davina Cooper, Research Professor in Law and Political Theory at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, Head of the Future of Legal Gender Project (2018-2022)
Producer: David Rutledge
Future of Legal Gender Project final report
Decertifying Legal Sex - Prefigurative Law Reform and the Future of Legal Gender: open access issue of Feminist Legal Studies with articles on different dimensions of the Future of Legal Gender Project's research and findings
Reconceptualizing the real in the struggle for gender: from gold standard to fragile accomplishment, Davina Cooper in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 50:1 (2024). How to think about 'the real' in light of the struggles over sex and gender
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