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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... intentional and descriptive concepts 87 The structure of embodiment 91 Qualifications of intention by sex 96 Gender and biological facts 107 Human nature as animal nature : human biology and anthropology Copyrighted Material Contents.
... intentional beings are able to inhabit political structures ( old or new ) ; and it is dangerous to ignore the data of posi- tive gender experience while elucidating gender malaise , because we Copyrighted Material Preface xiii.
... intentional qualities and , indeed , ideals . The intentional realities of gender are certainly related to the sexes , sex conceptions , and sex roles in a systematic way , but they are most interesting ( for ordinary and critical ...
... intentional ( which includes gender ) . Second , for the purposes of philosophical anthropology there are four different important meanings of natural . What is claimed to be natural for us might be that which we have re- ceived as an ...
... intentional subject , that is , a sentient being aiming at other beings . ' We humans require a double definition , then , along the lines of the traditional formula " rational animal , " because we come into two distinct yet ( through ...
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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 |