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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... Critical gender thinking 13 Implications for our study 19 2. On Conceiving the Human The " human " 24 " Nature " 28 Following nature 33 1 сл 5 23 Gender as an anthropological theme 36 3. Gender and Humanity The problem : how to behave ...
... critical thinking alike ) precisely insofar as they are dis- tinct . Thus readers are forewarned that their idea of " gender " may be contested in this work . I do this not for the love of multiplying con- ceptual possibilities but to ...
... critical . Positive gender thinking both assumes and trades on what it takes to be an apprehen- sible differentiation of human character by sex . It might do this in a crude and popular way ( " Boys will be boys " ) or in a finely ...
... critical thought requires that we not be . Often the kind of thinking I call positive is seen as something less than authentic thinking . Consider this assertion by Michel Foucault : " Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and ...
... critical just because they are artificial and free rearrange- ments of life's elements - whether or not they take advantage of their opportunity to pull our minds away from what we take for granted . The shape of men's and women's lives ...
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 |