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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... female and male humanity ? No greater prejudgment could possess one . If a girl I liked deviated from feminine stereotypes , that did not upset the prejudgment about girls ; that is how I knew she was special . In those days , the ...
... female " is not accidental . As Hector's speech to Andro- mache reminded us earlier , females are understood to occupy a vulner- able and dependent position . The connection can be made in either direction : females can be expected to ...
... female or male simply by virtue of pos- sessing a female or male body , but substantially , " spiritually . " If Homer stands at one end of the range of positive gender thinking , where men are men and women are women , with varying ...
... female about la plume - on the contrary - the pen , with the articles and adjectives accompanying it , is assigned to an order with a generic " she " identity that presupposes an experience of some eminent " she " ( women ? Mother ...
... Female , ” for instance , pertains to women , the egg - producing human beings , 10 while " feminine " pertains to certain ways of feeling , judging , and be- having ( along with ways of being approached and responded to ) that are ...
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 |