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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... Gender , Valuation , and Selfhood The attractions of gender and " finer ... think 206 Structures of duality 208 Metaphysical gender - duality theories ... genders 247 7. Gender and Procreation The relevance of procreation to gender and ...
... thought , thinkable even as one stays immersed in familiar feelings : if our sex offend us , pluck it out ! Or since we ... gender . Can we , though ? That is a serious question ; the difference be- tween femininity and masculinity is ...
... gender and sex relations a heterosexual white male author can perhaps see where the coals are awfully hot but still is not standing on those coals . It is all - important that such an author understand what the people on the hot coals ...
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... gender and race , the human kinds , insistently arise because these are in fact salient features in the landscape of ... thinking of a self - affirming minority , and to a lesser extent in the majority that realizes it has to deal with that ...
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 |