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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... 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 42 41 How gender qualifies humanity 43 How humanity qualifies gender 57 Gender and ...
Stephen Smith. Human nature as animal nature : human biology and anthropology 115 Human nature as animal nature : the Beast Within 120 The case of sexual jealousy 126 Human nature as sexual consistency : the racial parallel 133 5. Gender ...
... nature , " embodiment , personhood , virtue , love , and the fundamental structures of thinking and valuing . In try- ing to get to the bottom of gender , I think we open up every great issue in a profitable way - which is a sign that human ...
... human nature alike , calls on both kinds of order . It demands that we apply every conceivable technique to progress toward our ideal and simultaneously demands that we experi- ence ourselves , together and separately , as infinitely ...
Stephen Smith. nature . " Sometimes we want an inspiring reading of human nature to support our hopes of progress ; sometimes we set up a human - nature defense against demands for change . Always we are sheerly curious to think ...
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 |