Kathleen Stock
British analytical philosopher and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kathleen Mary Linn Stock OBE is a British philosopher and writer. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex until 2021. She has published academic work on aesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, and sexual orientation.[2]
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Born | Kathleen Mary Linn Stock 1971 or 1972 (age 51–52)[1] Aberdeen, Scotland, UK |
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Institutions | University of Sussex |
Thesis | The Nature and Value of Imaginative Responses to the Fiction Film (2001) |
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Website | kathleenstock |
Her views on transgender rights and gender identity have become a contentious issue.[3][4][5][6] In December 2020, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of services to higher education,[7][8] a decision which was subsequently criticised by a group of over 600 academic philosophers who argued that Stock's "harmful rhetoric" contributed to the marginalisation of transgender people.[9][10] In October 2021, she resigned from the University of Sussex.[11] This came after a student campaign took place calling for her dismissal and the university trade union accused the university of "institutional transphobia."[12][13] A group of over 200 academic philosophers from the UK signed an open letter in support of Stock's academic freedom.