Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality - The Big Questions

Informationen zum Autor Naomi Zack is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany. She is the author of "Race and Mixed Race" (1993)! "Bachelors of Science: Seventeenth Century Identity Then and Now" (1996)! "Thinking About Race" (1998). She is the Editor of "American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity" (1995) and "Race/Sex: Their Sameness! Difference! and Interplay" (1997).Laurie Shrage is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at California State Polytechmic University! Pomona. She is the author of "Moral Dilemmas of Feminism: Prostitution! Adultery! and Abortion "(1994). Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University! Capital College. He is the author of "The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions" (1995)! " Obscenity! Anarchy! Reality "(1996)! and "Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity." Klappentext This ambitious philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorizing on social identity. The editors redirect classic philosophical questions about personal identity to the categories of race, class, gender and sexuality. Readings consist of scholarly, popular, autobiographical and literary writings that engage issues in racial theory, social and political philosophy and feminism. A fifth part of the book on intersection illustrates the conceptual problems with essentialism and the taxonomy of identity politics. The importance of narrative accounts of social life within these significant identity categories is emphasized throughout the volume. Zusammenfassung This philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorizing on social identity. The editors redirect classic philosophical questions about personal identity to the categories of race! class! gender and sexuality.

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• Authors: Zack, N Zack, Naomi (State University of New York At Alban Zack, Naomi Shrage Zack
• Assisted by: Crispin Sartwell (Editor), Crispin (Pennsylvania State University) Sartwell (Editor), Laurie Shrage (Editor), Laurie (California State Polytechnic University) Shrage (Editor), Naomi Zack (Editor), Naomi (State University of New York at Albany) Zack (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780631208754
• ISBN: 978-0-631-20875-4
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Philosophy: The Big Questions; Philosophy: The Big Questions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works