Categories We Live By - The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories

Zusatztext Categories We Live By is a fresh and illuminating look at the construction of human categories. Informationen zum Autor Ásta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works mainly in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, and social philosophy and on related topics in epistemology and philosophy of language. Klappentext We are women, we are men. We are refugees, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they constructed? This book addresses these questions and offers a bold, new theory of social categories. Zusammenfassung We are women, we are men. We are refugees, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they constructed? This book addresses these questions and offers a bold, new theory of social categories.

Product details

• Authors: Ásta , Asta, Ásta, Associate Asta (Associate Professor of Philosophy, San Franc Asta (Associate Professor of Philosophy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780190256791
• ISBN: 978-0-19-025679-1
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy; Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Social groups, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Feminism & feminist theory, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Feminism and feminist theory, Social groups, communities and identities