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Categories We Live by

The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We are women, we are men. We are refugees, 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 constructed? This book addresses these questions and offers a bold, new theory of social categories.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780190256807
• ISBN-10: 019025680X
• Artikelnr.: 51962627

Autorenporträt

Ásta is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. She works mainly in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, and social philosophy and on related topics in epistemology and philosophy of language.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Social Categories
Chapter 1: The Conferralist Framework
Chapter 2: Social Construction as Social Significance
Chapter 3: Sex and Gender: From Beauvoir to Butler
Chapter 4: Conferralism about Sex and Gender
Chapter 5: Conferralism about Other Social Categories
Chapter 6: Identity as Social Location
Conclusion: Categories We Live By: Systematicity and Oppression
Bibliography
Index