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Professor of Philosophy and Gender and Women Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and author of Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory.

Professor of Philosophy and Gender and Women Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and author of Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory.

Helga Varden Articles

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Helga Varden

Gender is decided by experience, not biology or choice
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Helga Varden

Rawls vs Nozick: Justice or Freedom?

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