Gender
Key Concepts in Critical TheoryEdited by Carol C. Gould
A comprehensive collection of the most important essays on gender of the last two decades. Includes such themes as the social constitution of gender; the nature of sexual oppression; the relation of gender to family, class, race, and culture; and feminist perspectives on science and philosophy.
Series Editor's Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION OF GENDER
SELECTION 1 Simone de Beauvoir from The Second Sex
SELECTION 2 Sherry B. Ortner from Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?
SELECTION 3 Nancy J. Chodorow from Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective
SELECTION 4 Roger S. Gottlieb from Mothering and the Reproduction of Power
SELECTION 5 Alison M. Jaggar from Human Biology in Feminist Theory: Sexual Equality Reconsidered
SELECTION 6 Nancy Holmstrom from Do Women Have a Distinct Nature?
SELECTION 7 Ann Ferguson from A Feminist Aspect Theory of the Self?
SELECTION 8 Victor J. Seidler from Re-Creating Sexual Politics: Men, Feminism, and Politics
SELECTION 9 Judith Butler from Gender Trouble
PART II: GENDER, OPPRESSION, AND SEXUAL IDENTITY
SELECTION 10 Marilyn Frye from The Politics of Reality
SELECTION 11 Sandra Lee Bartky from Femininity and Domination
SELECTION 12 Arthur Brittan from Masculinity and Power
SELECTION 13 Luce Irigaray from This Sex Which Is Not One
SELECTION 14 Ruth Ginsberg from Audre Lorde's (Nonessentialist) Lesbian Eros
PART III: FAMILY, CLASS, RACE, AND CULTURE
SELECTION 15 Linda J. Nicholson from Gender and History
SELECTION 16 Elisabeth V. Spelman from Inessential Woman
SELECTION 17 Patricia Williams from The Alchemy of Race and Rights
SELECTION 18 Patricia Hill Collins from Black Feminist Thought
SELECTION 19 Uma Narayan from The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Non-Western Feminist
PART IV: GENDER, SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY
SELECTION 20 Sandra Harding from The Science Question in Feminism
SELECTION 21 Evelyn Fox Keller The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex to Gender as Nature Is to Science?
SELECTION 22 Carol G. Gould from The Woman Question: Philosophy of Liberation and the Liberation of Philosophy
SELECTION 23 Genevieve Lloyd from The Man of Reason
SELECTION 24 Jane Flax from Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory
SELECTION 25 Christine Pierce from Postmodernism and Other Skepticisms
SELECTION 26 Susan Bordo from Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender-Skepticism
PART V: ETHICS AND DIFFERENCE: CARE/JUSTICE AND PARTIALITY/IMPARTIALITY
SELECTION 27 Virginia Held from Noncontractual Society: A Feminist View
SELECTION 28 Carol Gilligan from Moral Orientation and Moral Development
SELECTION 29 Joan C. Tronto from Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn About Morality from Caring?
SELECTION 30 Seyla Benhabib from The Generalized and the Concrete Other
SELECTION 31 Sara Ruddick from Maternal Thinking
SELECTION 32 Marilyn Friedman from The Social Self and the Partiality Debates
PART VI: GENDER IN DEMOCRACY AND POLITICS
SELECTION 33 Carole Pateman from The Sexual Contract
SELECTION 34 Carol G. Gould from Feminism and Democratic Community Revisited
SELECTION 35 Susan Moller Okin from Justice, Gender, and the Family
SELECTION 36 Richard A. Wasserstrom from On Racism and Sexism
SELECTION 37 Iris Marion Young from The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public
SELECTION 38 Nancy Fraser from Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy
SELECTION 39 Karen J. Warren from The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
SELECTION 40 Hilary Charlesworth Human Rights as Men's Rights
PART VII: LAW AND DIFFERENCE: PRIVACY, PORNOGRAPHY, AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
SELECTION 41 Martha Minow from Making All the Difference
SELECTION 42 Deborah L. Rhode from Feminist Critical Theories
SELECTION 43 Anita L. Allen from Women and Their Privacy: What Is at Stake?
SELECTION 44 Eva Feder Kittay from Pornography and the Erotics of Domination
SELECTION 45 Catharine A. Mackinnon from Only Words
SELECTION 46 James W. Knight and Joan C. Callahan from Preventing Birth
SELECTION 47 Sara Ann Ketchum from Selling Babies and Selling Bodies
SELECTION 48 H.H. Malm Commodification or Compensation: A Reply to Ketchum
Humanities Press International New Jersey, english, Paperback, 485 pages