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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... feelings " : Kant The structure of valuing 145 A puzzle : How can a valuer value a different way of valuing ? 159 The gendering of ethics : Gilligan 167 Pornography and other pathologies of gender valuation 175 Androgyny and perplexity ...
... feelings : if our sex offend us , pluck it out ! Or since we cannot by any amount of breeding get rid of femaleness and maleness , let us do away with the stereotypes of character and behavior that have been hung on physical sex , as ...
... feels shame at the thought of avoiding battle ( 6 : 441-46 ) ; and when he takes off his chief insignia , the flashing war helm , to quiet his baby , we are made to feel that the martial personality is a layer of his self . The notion ...
... feeling of strangeness or uncertainty in a situation , or perhaps to redefine a situation in a fresh , more forceful way ( as the Odyssey's cross- sex descriptions of Penelope help to convey the special quality of her relationship with ...
... feels to be natural , could justly represent a human reality to which Paul's feeling responds . Perhaps the contra- dictions in the reasoning trace complexities in the reality . It has often been true , after all , that women's activity ...
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 |