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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... problem : how to behave 42 41 How gender qualifies humanity 43 How humanity qualifies gender 57 Gender and central human projects 60 Gender and other human kinds compared 64 Human nature as an endowment of diversities 83 4. The Sex ...
... problem in High Noon 192 Human nature as a set of gendered métiers 203 6. Gender and Duality The problem : how to think 206 Structures of duality 208 Metaphysical gender - duality theories : Hegel and Levinas 220 Theological gender ...
... problems of sexism were again beginning to be remarked widely , and I discovered that with the awakening to sex- ist injustice comes the very same thought , thinkable even as one stays immersed in familiar feelings : if our sex offend ...
... problems that philosophers have always found especially interest- ing , including universals , " nature , " embodiment , personhood , virtue , love , and the fundamental structures of thinking and valuing . In try- ing to get to the ...
... problem would not arise ; but in the democratic frame , our frame , we are bound to be frustrated in our practice by human differentiation and confused about the meaning of human equality , since we are required to observe principles ...
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 |