Steven G. Smith: Gender Thinking

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>The first comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877229636&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="939_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Gender Thinking</h1> <h3>Steven G. Smith</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-963-5 $84.50, Sep 92, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 0-87722-964-3 $32.95, Sep 92, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-440-5 $34.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 384 pp 6x9 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"This is quite an extraordinary piece of sustained 'thoughtwork,' laying out its own weave of analysis, synthesis, and proposal in conversation with a wonderful array of other works and positions. The depth and care of engagement with the problem and promise of rethinking humankind with respect for gender marks is as an accomplishment that makes a crucial point: that thinking about the human without thinking as gendered creatures about gender is both impossible and, as we might say, in bad faith. Thus, the book helps us take a step toward rectifying what we think about, who and what we think as, when we engage in the curious reflexivity of thinking about our own humanity."</I> <br>&#151<b>Elizabeth Minnich</b>, Union Institute, author of <I>Transforming Knowledge</I><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>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. <I>Gender Thinking</I> is the first comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender Asking the question, what is gender?&#151that is, what sort of thing do we take femininity and masculinity to be?&#151Smith 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. <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Preface <br>A Prologue on Democracy <p>1. The Two Sides of Gender Thinking <br><I>Positive Gender Thinking &#149 Critical Gender Thinking &#149 Implications for Our Study</I> <p>2. On Conceiving the Human <br><I>The "Human" &#149 "Nature" &#149 Following Nature &#149 Gender as an Anthropological Theme</I> <p>3. Gender and Humanity <br><I>The Problem: How to Behave &#149 How Gender Qualifies Gender &#149 Gender and Central Human Projects &#149 Gender and Other Human Kinds Compared &#149 Human Nature as an Endowment of Diversities</I> <p>4. The Sex "Basis" of Gender <br><I>The Problem of Junction Between Intentional and Descriptive Concepts &#149 The Structure of Embodiment &#149 Qualifications of Intention by Sex &#149 Gender and Biological Facts &#149 Human Nature as Animal Nature: Human Biology and Anthropology &#149 Human Nature as animal nature: The Beast Within &#149 The Case of Sexual Jealousy &#149 Human Nature as Sexual Consistency: The Racial Parallel</I> <p>5. Gender, Valuation, and Selfhood <br><I>The Attractions of Gender and "Finer Feelings": Kant &#149 The Structure of Valuing &#149 A Puzzle: How can a Valuer Value a Different Way of Valuing? &#149 The Gendering of Ethics: Gilligan &#149 Pornography and Other Pathologies of Gender Valuation &#149 Androgyny and Perplexity &#149 Gender Character and "True Self" &#149 Gendered Selfhood and the Asymmetry Problem in </I>High Noon<I> &#149 Human Nature as a Set of Gendered M�tiers</I> <p>6. Gender and Duality <br><I>The Problem: How to Think &#149 Structures of Duality &#149 Metaphysical Gender-Duality Theories: Hegel and Levinas &#149 Theological Gender-Duality Theories: The Shakers and Paul &#149 Social-Scientific Gender-Duality Theories: Freud and L�vi-Strauss &#149 Human Nature as a Harmony of the Sexes and Genders</I> <p>7. Gender and Procreation <br><I>The Relevance of Procreation to Gender and Human Nature &#149 The Structure of Procreative Activity &#149 Generationality, Potentiation, and Determination &#149 Gender and Issues of Procreative Choice</I> <p>Conclusion: Realizing Sex <br><I>Realized Imaginatively &#149 Realized Intellectually &#149 Realized Spiritually &#149 Realized Practically</I> <p>Notes <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Steven G. Smith</b> is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Millsaps College and author of <I><a href="568_reg.html" target="_top">The Concept of the Spiritual: An Essay in First Philosophy</a></I> (Temple).</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/general.html" TARGET="_top">General Interest</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/philosophy.html" TARGET="_top">Philosophy and Ethics</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877229636&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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