Ariël DecosterUniversity of Antwerp | UA · Faculty of Law
Ariël Decoster
Master of Laws
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Introduction
I am a doctoral researcher specialised in feminist legal theory and critical legal masculinity studies at the University of Antwerp and Ghent. My FWO-funded dissertation, entitled “Masculinity as Property”, sits at the intersection of legal studies, gender studies, and philosophy. I rely on the notion of property as a heuristic tool to make visible where male privilege hides in an increasingly gender-neutral legal system.
Education
August 2019 - May 2020
September 2017 - June 2019
September 2014 - June 2017
Publications
Publications (5)
This article aims to reconsider what property is and how it functions to critically scrutinise it as a matter of power. I rely on gender performativity theory to interpret contemporary research on property as a social practice and offer to think about property as equally performed. I suggest that property, just like gender, functions as a script fo...
Although society is (slowly) evolving, rigid gender stereotypes still persist in the world of professional sports. In line with the creation of a strict binary division of athletes, sex-testing policies based on stereotypical considerations of womanhood have come to target ‘overly masculine’ women athletes with variations of sex characteristics (VS...
It is commonly accepted that gender matters (whether cisgender, transgender/trans*, gender non-binary, genderfluid, gender queer, agender, or other) and many are raising awareness about the fact that gender always seems to matter. That gender matters, and always matters, does not necessarily mean, however, that gender needs to be authenticated or e...
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It is commonly accepted that gender matters (whether cisgender, transgender/trans*, gender non-binary, genderfluid, gender queer, agender, or other) and many are raising awareness about the fact that gender always seems to matter. That gender matters, and always matters, does not necessarily mean, however, that gender needs to be authenticated o...
