This book takes Heidegger to task on gender by assessing his views on women as thinkers and exploring what his work offers to contemporary LGBTQ+ and women's studies. Scholars come together whose Heidegger research engages bioethics, pregnancy, motherhood and maternal Dasein; whether Dasein can be gender neutral or non-binary, and what it means when 'neutrality' and gender are defined by patriarchy rather than the spectrum of lived genders; the question of human capacity for transcendence in the immanence of flesh; and the possibility of re-imaging Dasein as gendered, i.e., born into embodiment and bound to memory, and the capacity to create new futures by transitioning the present as it slips into history. Authors ask who and what, including animals, can be Dasein and bring Heidegger to issues of sexual abuse and violence, men's experience when thrust into women's daily (and not so daily) routine, and the intersection of queerness and death. The book aims not to provide final answers, but to open possibilities for further thinking with, on, against, through and because of Heidegger.
Tricia Glazebrook is professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs and affiliate professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington State University. Susanne Claxton is instructor of philosophy at Southern New Hampshire University and Santa Fe Community College.
Acknowledgements Tricia Glazebrook Editor's Introduction Susanne Claxton Chapter 1. Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender in a non-binary Epoch Tricia Glazebrook Chapter 2. In Defense of Dasein's Neutrality William McNeill Chapter 3. Antigone's (Poetic, Queer) Death: Heidegger, Butler, and Mortality Katherine Davies Chapter 4. The Im-Passability of Transition: Heidegger and Transgender Discourse Riley Johnson Chapter 5. Maternal Dasein: Ruddick and Heidegger on "Authentic Mothering" Dana S. Belu Chapter 6. Dasein and the Experience of Pregnancy: Contemplating Becoming-With, Attunement and Temporality with and beyond Heidegger Marjolein Oele Chapter 7. The Ontogenesis of Human Beings and an Ethics of Re/membering Roisin Lally Chapter 8. "This is what it's like for some women all the time": Phenomenological Reflections of a White Male during the COVID-19 Pandemic Casey Rentmeester Chapter 9. Problem: What is Woman? The Hermeneutics of Sex/Gender Facticity Jill Drouillard Chapter 10. Da-Sein's Pronouns Babette Babich Chapter 11. Queering Heidegger: An Applied Ontology E. Das Janssen About the Contributors
