The Metaphysics of Gender

The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• 1: Two Notions of Essence


• 2: Gender and Social Normativity


• 3: Human Organisms, Social Individuals and Persons


• 4: The Argument for Gender Essentialism


• 5: The Person, the Social Individual and the Self


• Epilogue Gender Essentialism and Feminist Politics


• Select Bibliography

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Charlotte Witt is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Substance and Essence in Aristotle and Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics. She is also the editor of Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self, and the co-editor of A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity . She lives in Portland, Maine with her family.

Zusammenfassung

The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.

Zusatztext

Charlotte Witt has published a bold new book on the metaphysics of our social world, in which she argues for gender essentialism...Her book is a sustained argument for a precise thesis that weaves together issues in feminist theory, metaphysics, moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy. There are not many works that achieve this. Witt's book is a very important contribution to our understanding of the metaphysics of social reality and of sexist oppression.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Charlotte Witt, Charlotte (Professor of Philosophy Witt
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.08.2011
• EAN: 9780199740406
• ISBN: 978-0-19-974040-6
• Seiten: 144
• Serien: Studies in Feminist Philosophy; Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien