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By : Aasta Sveinsdaottir
Book Synopsis :
We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, 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 created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them?Aasta approaches these questions through analytic feminist metaphysics. Her theory of social categories centers on an answer to the question: what is it for a feature of an individual to be socially meaningful? In a careful, probing investigation, she reveals how social categories are created and sustained and demonstrates their tendency to oppress through examples from current events. To this end, she offers an account of just what social construction is and how it works in a range of examples that problematize the categories of sex, gender, and race in particular. The main idea is that social categories are conferred upon people. Aasta introduces a 'conferralist' framework in order to .
Book Detail :
Tittle : Categories We Live by: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories
Author : Aasta Sveinsdaottir
Pages : 160 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 019025680X
ISBN-13 : 9780190256807
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