Description: The Metaphysics of Gender Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Charlotte Witt Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-13: 9780199740406, 978-0199740406 Synopsis 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? After distinguishing between essentialism about gender viewed as a kind and essentialism about gender in relation to individuals and their lived experiences, 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? Given the view of gender as a social role the claim of gender essentialism can only be coherently expressed of social individuals. The Metaphysics of Gender argues that a social individual's gender is uniessential to it.
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Book Title: The Metaphysics of Gender
Number of Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Name: The Metaphysics of Gender
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 209 mm
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 226 g
Subject Area: Gender Issues
Author: Charlotte Witt
Item Width: 141 mm
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
Format: Paperback
