Gender ThinkingTemple University Press, 2010 M04 30 - 384 pages How can we accept the gender system in view of its ills? Yet, are we really at liberty to abolish gender differences, "when the gender system gives us benchmarks of personal identity and worth along with primary channels in which to pursue the rewards of love?" With this double question, Steven G. Smith introduces his inquiry into the idea of gender and how it is implicated in love, respect, equality, and personal character. Gender Thinking is the first comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender Asking the question, what is gender?—that is, what sort of thing do we take femininity and masculinity to be?—Smith considers how gender thinking is interwoven with ideas about human nature. He suggests ways in which ideas about race, class, culture age, temperament, and sexual orientation can be understood from clues found in gender thinking. And he calls for a renegotiated procreative partnership between women and men as the key to the redemption of gender. |
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... feminism's explicitly partisan gender critique appears in the form of something like a discipline , enabling a systematic questioning of the premises of knowing and valuing as Copyrighted Material The Two Sides of Gender Thinking 15.
... feminism , which with unprecedented insight knows itself to be embroiled in the problem- atic actuality of gender , we ... feminist gender critique is not simply having noticed the gender system's structure , but having suffered from it ...
... feminist crit- ics seem to say that it is possible to strip away the undesirable aspects of masculinity and femininity and thus arrive at attractive cores which , while partial , are morally and politically symmetri- cal . But ...
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Contents
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4 The Sex Basis of Gender | 85 |
5 Gender Valuation and Selfhood | 139 |
6 Gender and Duality | 205 |
7 Gender and Procreation | 254 |
Realizing Sex | 303 |
Notes | 321 |
Index | 375 |