Resisting Reality Social Construction and Social Critique

Name: Resisting Reality Social Construction and Social Critique
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ISBN: 9780199892624

ISBN-10: 0199892628

ISBN-13: 9780199892624

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sally Haslanger

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Contemporary theorists use the term "social construction" with the aim of exposing how what's purportedly "natural" is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory to explore and develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. On this interpretation, the point of saying that gender and race are socially constructed is not to make a causal claim about the origins of our concepts of gender and race, or to take a stand in the nature/nurture debate, but to locate these…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.21" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.804



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Social Construction



On Being Objective and Being Objectified



Ontology and Social Construction



Social Construction: The "Debunking" Project



Feminism in Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural



Family, Ancestry, and Self: What Is the Moral Significance of Biological Ties?



Social Construction: Myth and Reality



Gender and Race



Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them to Be?



Future Genders? Future Races?



You Mixed? Racial Identity without Racial Biology



A Social Constructionist Analysis of Race



Oppressions: Racial and Other



Language and Knowledge



What Knowledge Is and What It Ought to Be: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology



What Are We Talking About? The Semantics and Politics of Social Kinds



What Good Are Our Intuitions? Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds



"But Mom, Crop-Tops Are Cute!" Social Knowledge, Social Structure, and Ideology Critique



Language, Politics, and "The Folk:" Looking for "The Meaning" of 'Race'



Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground


Index