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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... interpreting what has been thought and said about human kinds in such a way as to maximize and exploit the cumulative insight in it , and part imaginative exploration in search of postures we should want to adopt and forms we should not ...
... interpreting the other - responsiveness becoming conscious , con- sciousness becoming responsive . Everyone is to ... interpreted otherwise than as a saga of democratic progress , you cannot deny that democratic progress is feasible from ...
... interpreted as products of education and critically peeled away from the " human nature " and " reason " in which truth and value were anchored . At the same time , however , the rise of humanitarianism and the cult of sen- timent ...
... interpreted as a " cultural " process , that is , a cultivation of human " nature " determined by the vicissitudes of early childhood or the customs of one's commu- nity ; or as a " social " artifact , that is , a purely conventional ...
... crystal - clear division of humanity's and gender's regimes . 4. Since we are thinking in the midst of a struggle between rival interpretations of the human and are caught up not only Copyrighted Material The Two Sides of Gender Thinking ...
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 |