Round 1 - vs OU Leaseau-Maddy

Case vs OU Leaseau-Maddy

Feminists rely on dualistic notions of gender

Theresa W. Tobin, Marquette University Assistant Philosophy Professor, “The core of their critique is that the global feminist movement, Human Rights Review, 2008, SpringerOnline Database 

instrumental in redefining and promoting ...suffer and thereby fails to recommend morally appropriate solutions.

Sexual dimorphism leads to eugenics and denies the personhood of intersexed individuals

M. Morgan Holmes, Sociology & CAST-MA, Wilfrid Laurier University, Mind the Gaps: Intersex and (Re-productive) Spaces in Disability Studies and Bioethics, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2003, 28.4

Kathryn Pauly Morgan explains in her own parable...any passer-by who sees the child will apprehend a person, not an ‘it’.

Standing in solidary fails – The aff is essentialist, reproducing the exact stereotypes produced under patriarchy

Whitworth, Assistant Professor of Political Science York University 94 

Sandra, Feminism and International Relations: Towards a Political Economy of Gender in Interstate and Non-Governmental Institutions, p. 20

Even when not concerned with mothering... this in itself should give feminists pause to reconsider this position.51

Feminist IR objectifies non-Western women—reentrenching dangerous binaries

John M. Hobson, Prof., Dept. of Politics, The University of Sheffield,  “Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western imperialism? Beyond Westphilian towards a post-racist critical IR,” Review of International Studies (2007), 33, 91–116, Cambridge Journal Online Database.

All in all, I think it fair to say that postmodernism ...by feminists as having little or no agency.