{"product_id":"the-metaphysics-of-gender-9780199740406","title":"The Metaphysics of Gender","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003eindividuals (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\u003cbr\u003eindividual 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\u003cbr\u003ekind 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\u003cbr\u003eindividual's other social roles. An important ingredient in gender uniessentialism concerns exactly which individuals are 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\u003cbr\u003eexpresses 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Witt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199740406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOntology 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937647018099,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_17156208-a992-4971-a335-8297212387fb.jpg?v=1647994851","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-metaphysics-of-gender-9780199740406","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}