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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... identity ? How awkward race was , anyway ; wouldn't it be better if we could blend the races forthwith to create an undivided world of medium - brown people ? Meanwhile , why should skin color portend more than shirt or skirt color ...
... identity and worth along with primary channels in which to pursue the rewards of love ? Had I suf- ficiently appreciated black distinctiveness in my high school days , I might have had second thoughts about the abolition of race . With ...
... identity to this reduction of the diversity issue into individual versus society terms . Race and other group identities are similarly resistant within the thinking of a self - affirming minority , and to a lesser extent in the majority ...
... identity . Achilles is not remarking a " feminine trait " in Patroclus ; still less does he worry about " effemi- nacy . " The girl simile is ad hoc . Homer is playing with neglected re- semblances among human beings and situations ...
... identity.10 Gender imagining is af- fected . One might have thought that it was Mme . de Marsantes who was entering the room , so salient at that moment was the woman whom a mistake on the part of Nature had enshrined in the body of M ...
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 |