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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... belongs to a larger gesture of moral dissatisfaction with the workings of the actual gender system , it nevertheless subjects itself and us to an experience of feminine qualities . Critical gender thinking means to withdraw from this ...
... belongs to the curse and to sin [ Gen. 3:16 ] , not to creation . ) 9 Paul's thought seems thoroughly twisted . Whereas in real life it is women who give birth , we say that in the beginning man gave birth to woman ; woman , made from ...
... belongs to the body ; at least , all his opin- ions have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority , that the faint spirit which the grape of his own vine yields cannot be distinguished . Society , therefore , as it becomes ...
... belongs to the positive idea of gender that " people really are like that , " in some sense , and that " it really works that way , " in some fashion ; gender isn't thought to be either an arbitrary choice of lifestyles or a scam . We ...
... belong to one great flow through one great frame , Democracy ? And that we have the means of handling our questions in such a way that they can be seen to concern everyone , namely , the category of human nature ? Thus do we stay within ...
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 |