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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... Generationality , potentiation , and determination 272 Gender and issues of procreative choice 284 139 205 254 Conclusion : Realizing Sex Realized imaginatively 306 Realized intellectually 308 Copyrighted Material viii Contents.
... determining gender to do , even if it is not the determination whether to be gendered . Questioning is not always doubting . Positive gender thinking I will draw on some well - known writings to illustrate the forms and complexities of ...
... determined by the vicissitudes of early childhood or the customs of one's commu- nity ; or as a " social " artifact , that is , a purely conventional formation of plastic humanity . Psychology investigates a postulated " mental dif ...
... determine whether feminine value is as humanly important and fulfill- ing as masculine value or instead is just what women generally have to settle for , faute de mieux , under male domination ? Is asymmetry only a biased word for ...
... determine what sort of being we are . We cannot see what we are because , as the ones who see , we are at the wrong ... determination . And their constitution can always be overthrown or amended for extraconstitutional reasons . Now we ...
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 |