{"product_id":"the-metaphysics-of-gender-paperback","title":"The Metaphysics of Gender - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Witt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Metaphysics of Gender\u003c\/em\u003e is a book about gender essentialism: What it is and why it might be true. It opens with the question: What is gender essentialism? The first chapter distinguishes between essentialism about kinds of individuals (e.g. women and men as groups) and essentialism about individuals (e.g. you and me). Successive \u003cbr\u003echapters introduce the ingredients for a theory of gender essentialism about individuals, called \u003cem\u003euniessentialism\u003c\/em\u003e. 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\u003cbr\u003eare at issue-human organisms, persons, or social individuals? \u003cem\u003eThe Metaphysics of Gender\u003c\/em\u003e argues that a social individual's gender is uniessential to it. Gender uniessentialism expresses the centrality of gender in our lived experiences and explores the social normativity of gender in a way that is useful for feminist theory and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Witt \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eSubstance and Essence in Aristotle and Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the editor of F\u003cem\u003eeminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self\u003c\/em\u003e, and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eA Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Portland, Maine with her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754021159200,"sku":"9780199740406","price":92.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/40736a7fefbc839d09d415166f1c9353.webp?v=1780031650","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-metaphysics-of-gender-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}