Document Type

Article

Publication Title

DePaul Law Review

Abstract

The reason why I say, therefore, that gender is for nouns and not for persons is that I do not wish the choice of title to require me to buy in, or even hint at buying in, to that particular world view that I have just criticized. The older term, which refers to sex differences and treats them as comprehensive in their importance and their influence, better captures the position that I wish to defend here. So I choose the term that is congruent with my position. Having broken from modern convention on a point of principle, I think it becomes important to explain why I believe that the effort to confine the influence of sex differences to narrow areas of human behavior is a mistake, and then to indicate how this mistake has led to unfortunate legal decisions about the relevance of sex differences in the legal system.

First Page

981

Volume

41

Publication Date

1992

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