Charlotte Witt

The Metaphysics of Gender (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199908424
• Artikelnr.: 38136730

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Witt is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Substance and Essence in Aristotle and Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics. She is also the editor of Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self, and the co-editor of A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity . She lives in Portland, Maine with her family.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1: Two Notions of Essence
2: Gender and Social Normativity
3: Human Organisms, Social Individuals and Persons
4: The Argument for Gender Essentialism
5: The Person, the Social Individual and the Self
Epilogue Gender Essentialism and Feminist Politics
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