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Categories We Live By - The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Hardcover)
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Categories We Live By - The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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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? Asta 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. Asta 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.
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