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Author | : Ásta |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190256796 |
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We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, 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 created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them? Ásta approaches these questions through analytic feminist metaphysics. Her theory of social categories centers on an answer to the question: what is it for a feature of an individual to be socially meaningful? In a careful, probing investigation, she reveals how social categories are created and sustained and demonstrates their tendency to oppress through examples from current events. To this end, she offers an account of just what social construction is and how it works in a range of examples that problematize the categories of sex, gender, and race in particular. The main idea is that social categories are conferred upon people. Ásta introduces a 'conferralist' framework in order to articulate a theory of social meaning, social construction, and most importantly, of the construction of sex, gender, race, disability, and other social categories.
Author | : Ásta |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190907274 |
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We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, 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 created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them? Ásta approaches these questions through analytic feminist metaphysics. Her theory of social categories centers on an answer to the question: what is it for a feature of an individual to be socially meaningful? In a careful, probing investigation, she reveals how social categories are created and sustained and demonstrates their tendency to oppress through examples from current events. To this end, she offers an account of just what social construction is and how it works in a range of examples that problematize the categories of sex, gender, and race in particular. The main idea is that social categories are conferred upon people. Ásta introduces a 'conferralist' framework in order to articulate a theory of social meaning, social construction, and most importantly, of the construction of sex, gender, race, disability, and other social categories.
Author | : Ron Mallon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198755678 |
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Ron Mallon explores how thinking and talking about kinds of person can bring those kinds into being. He considers what normative implications this social constructionism has for our understanding of our practices of representing human kinds, like race, gender, and sexual orientation, and for our own agency.
Author | : Linda R. Monk |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-08-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0316381861 |
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THE WORDS WE LIVE BY takes an entertaining and informative look at America's most important historical document, now with discussions on new rulings on hot button issues such as immigration, gay marriage, gun control, and affirmative action. In THE WORDS WE LIVE BY, Linda Monk probes the idea that the Constitution may seem to offer cut-and-dried answers to questions regarding personal rights, but the interpretations of this hallowed document are nearly infinite. For example, in the debate over gun control, does "the right of the people to bear arms" as stated in the Second Amendment pertain to individual citizens or regulated militias? What do scholars say? Should the Internet be regulated and censored, or does this impinge on the freedom of speech as defined in the First Amendment? These and other issues vary depending on the interpretation of the Constitution. Through entertaining and informative annotations, THE WORDS WE LIVE BY offers a new way of looking at the Constitution. Its pages reflect a critical, respectful and appreciative look at one of history's greatest documents. THE WORDS WE LIVE BY is filled with a rich and engaging historical perspective along with enough surprises and fascinating facts and illustrations to prove that your Constitution is a living--and entertaining--document. Updated now for the first time, THE WORDS WE LIVE BY continues to take an entertaining and informative look at America's most important historical document, now with discussions on new rulings on hot button issues such as immigration, gay marriage, and affirmative action.
Author | : George Lakoff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2008-08-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226471012 |
Download Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."—David E. Leary, American Scientist
Author | : Charlotte Witt |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9048137837 |
Download Feminist Metaphysics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective. The essays cover central feminist topics including: the ontology of sex and gender, persons, identity and subjectivity, and the relations among experience, ideology and reality. Many of the papers combine cutting-edge feminist theory with contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of language. The volume is also distinctive in including articles representing both analytic and continental perspectives on metaphysics. The essays are philosophically sophisticated and are primarily intended for a professional audience of philosophers and feminist theorists.
Author | : Judith Butler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-09-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136783245 |
Download Gender Trouble Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With intellectual reference points that include Foucault and Freud, Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray, this is one of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years and is perhaps the essential work of contemporary feminist thought.
Author | : Viktor Mayer-Schönberger |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0544002695 |
Download Big Data Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A exploration of the latest trend in technology and the impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.
Author | : Charlotte Witt |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2011-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199740410 |
Download The Metaphysics of Gender Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author develops the claim that gender is uniessential to social individuals. The used terms to express gender essentialism are explained, clarified and defended in the first part of the book. In the second part the author constructs an argument for the claim that gender is uniessential to social individuals.
Author | : Sally Engle Merry |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-06-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022626131X |
Download The Seductions of Quantification Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we reveal. With The Seductions of Quantification, leading legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy—overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge.