%0 Journal Article
%A Gamero Cabrera, Isabel Gloria
%T Acknowledging women: some Wittgensteinian ideas to clarify the cis/trans debate
%D 2022
%@ 2194-6825
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/109205
%X My aim in this paper is to use some contents of the later Wittgenstein’s work, and some of its interpreters, to shed some light on the cis/trans debate, in which it is disputed what a woman is and who the subject of feminisms is. There is a stance, called cisfeminism,  which  do  not  acknowledge  transgender  women  neither  as women  nor  as  subjects  of  feminisms.  I  analyse  and  criticise  the main  cisfeminist arguments from a Wittgensteinian perspective, taking into account (1) the plausible essentialism  of  these  arguments  and  (2)  the  everyday  uses  of  language  and  its changes. Finally (3), I make some considerations about the effect that theories have in human lives
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