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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... Gender Thinking Positive gender thinking 6 Critical gender thinking 13 Implications for our study 19 2. On Conceiving the Human The " human " 24 " Nature " 28 Following nature 33 1 сл 5 23 Gender as an anthropological theme 36 3. Gender ...
Stephen Smith. Chapter 1 The Two Sides of Gender Thinking Gender thinking in Western culture runs in two quite different channels , which I propose to call positive and critical . Positive gender thinking both assumes and trades on what ...
Stephen Smith. " naturalness " of gender . For the positive thought , gender is not so much a natural fact as a transcendental ... gender contribute powerfully Copyrighted Material 6 The Two Sides of Gender Thinking Positive gender thinking.
... women's subordination . There is a play on head that suggests that the open dis- play of the human head might fittingly symbolize a dominant social position . In working out the symbolism , are we to take it as a bare positive fact that ...
... female " ( Gal . 3:28 ) -he is not , and does not pretend or want to be , free of the natural presupposition about gender . That is not a peculiarity of Paul's ; it is characteristic of positive gender thinking , sometimes jarringly so ...
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 |