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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... perspective- " Nevertheless ... all things are from God " ( 1 Cor . 11 : 11-12 ) , " In Christ there is neither male nor female " ( Gal . 3:28 ) -he is not , and does not pretend or want to be , free of the natural presupposition about ...
... perspective on gender . As far as the Arbitrariness Thesis goes , we might be fortunate enough to live in the best ... perspectives , and styles . Here it is human diversity rather than common humanity that is the casualty of gender.20 ...
... perspectives has important implications for our study of gender thinking : 1. We must sometimes suspend questions such ... perspective on gender is the category of the human , but the meaning of the human - according to gender thinking ...
... perspective , of regarding men and women as separate species is a clue to a concep- tual mistake . Gendering is a division internal to a species rather than true speciation . Genders are not simply kinds but subordinate kinds of a ...
... perspective , " wondering if they're human " will normally be dismissed , finally , as a lazy or crabby response to members of the other gender , unless it works as a constructive question in the manner exhibited by Karl Barth : Much ...
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 |