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Categories we live by : the construction of sex, gender, race, and other social categories / Ásta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ásta, author.
- Series:
- Studies in feminist philosophy.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Studies in feminist philosophy
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity.
- Social constructionism.
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 140 pages)
- Other Title:
- Construction of sex, gender, race, and other social categories
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2018
- Summary:
- We are women, we are men. We are refugees, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they constructed? This text addresses these questions and offers a bold, new theory of social categories.
- Contents:
- The conferralist framework
- Social construction as social significance
- Sex and gender : from beauvoir to butler
- Conferralism about sex and gender
- Conferralism about other social categories
- Identity as social location.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-090727-4
- 0-19-025682-6
- 0-19-025681-8
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