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The Metaphysics of Gender (Hardcover)
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The Metaphysics of Gender (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: What
it is and why it might be true. It opens with the question: What is
gender essentialism? The first chapter distinguishes between
essentialism about kinds of individuals (e.g. women and men as
groups) and essentialism about individuals (e.g. you and me).
Successive
chapters introduce the ingredients for a theory of gender
essentialism about individuals, called uniessentialism. Gender
uniessentialism claims that a social individual's gender is
uniessential to that individual. It is modeled on Aristotle's
essentialism in which the form or essence of an individual is the
principle of unity of that individual. For example, the form or
essence of an artifact, like a house, is what unifies the material
parts of the house into a new individual (over and above a sum of
parts). Since an individual's gender is a social role (or set of
social norms), the kind of unity in question is not the unity of
material parts, as it is in the artifact example. Instead, the
central claim of gender uniessentialism is that an individual's
gender provides that individual with a principle of normative
unity-a principle that orders and organizes all of that
individual's other social roles. An important ingredient in gender
uniessentialism concerns exactly which individuals are at
issue-human organisms, persons, or social individuals? The
Metaphysics of Gender argues that a social individual's gender is
uniessential to it. Gender uniessentialism expresses the centrality
of gender in our lived experiences and explores the social
normativity of gender in a way that is useful for feminist theory
and politics.
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