Gender Thinking

By: Steven G. Smith

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Hardcover | 29 September 1992

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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. Gender Thinking is the first comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender Asking the question, what is gender?-that is, what sort of thing do we take femininity and masculinity to be?-Smith 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. Author note: Steven G. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Millsaps College and author of The Concept of the Spiritual: An Essay in First Philosophy (Temple).

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"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." --Elizabeth Minnich, Union Institute, author of Transforming Knowledge

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Preface
A Prologue on Democracy	p. 1
The Two Sides of Gender Thinking	p. 5
Positive gender thinking	p. 6
Critical gender thinking	p. 13
Implications for our study	p. 19
On Conceiving the Human	p. 23
The "human"	p. 24
"Nature"	p. 28
Following nature	p. 33
Gender as an anthropological theme	p. 36
Gender and Humanity	p. 41
The problem: how to behave	p. 42
How gender qualifies humanity	p. 43
How humanity qualifies gender	p. 57
Gender and central human projects	p. 60
Gender and other human kinds compared	p. 64
Human nature as an endowment of diversities	p. 83
The Sex "Basis" of Gender	p. 85
The problem of junction between intentional and descriptive concepts	p. 87
The structure of embodiment	p. 91
Qualifications of intention by sex	p. 96
Gender and biological facts	p. 107
Human nature as animal nature: human biology and anthropology	p. 115
Human nature as animal nature: the Beast Within	p. 120
The case of sexual jealousy	p. 126
Human nature as sexual consistency: the racial parallel	p. 133
Gender, Valuation, and Selfhood	p. 139
The attractions of gender and "finer feelings": Kant	p. 141
The structure of valuing	p. 145
A puzzle: How can a valuer value a different way of valuing?	p. 159
The gendering of ethics: Gilligan	p. 167
Pornography and other pathologies of gender valuation	p. 175
Androgyny and perplexity	p. 183
Gender character and "true self"	p. 187
Gendered selfhood and the asymmetry problem in High Noon	p. 192
Human nature as a set of gendered metiers	p. 203
Gender and Duality	p. 205
The problem: how to think	p. 206
Structures of duality	p. 208
Metaphysical gender-duality theories: Hegel and Levinas	p. 220
Theological gender-duality theories: The Shakers and Paul	p. 224
Social-scientific gender-duality theories: Freud and Levi-Strauss	p. 229
Human nature as a harmony of the sexes and genders	p. 247
Gender and Procreation	p. 254
The relevance of procreation to gender and human nature	p. 255
The structure of procreative activity	p. 260
Generationality, potentiation, and determination	p. 272
Gender and issues of procreative choice	p. 284
Conclusion: Realizing Sex	p. 303
Realized imaginatively	p. 306
Realized intellectually	p. 308
Realized spiritually	p. 310
Realized practically	p. 315
Notes	p. 321
Index	p. 375
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