The second installment in what I hope will be a long series—Whose Fault Is it?—features psychologists J. Michael Bailey, author of The Man Who Would Be Queen, and Marco Del Giudice, organizer of The Big Conversation, a conference on “the origins, mechanisms, and meanings of sex/gender differences.”
Yesterday, we heard from Holly Lawford-Smith, associate professor in political philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and author of Gender-Critical Feminism and Feminism Beyond Left and Right. That was a bit of a preemptive argument about feminism’s role in the gender culture war: a deep dive into what feminists have gotten right, and wrong. Today, we hear another view—or views.
I hope people will find time to listen to them both and respond, ask questions. Let’s put these separate conversations into a dialogue. Comments are open.
Dr. Mike Bailey obtained his B.A. in mathematics from Washington University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1989. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1989 and remains there as Professor. His research has primarily focused on the causes, development, and expression of sexual orientation. More recently, he has extended his research to gender dysphoria and paraphilias. His research has frequently provoked controversy.
Marco Del Giudice is Associate Professor of psychology at the University of Trieste. His work explores a broad range of topics at the intersection of human behavior, evolution, and development. His research areas include evolutionary models of mental disorders, the mechanisms of motivation and emotion, the evolution of developmental plasticity and the role of stress neurobiology, and the evolution of individual and sex differences in psychological traits. He has published over 110 papers and chapters; in 2016 he won the Early Career Award of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
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