... groups across cultures and times have divided labor by gender. What explains this fact, along with related inequities in the division of resources? It may be tempting to assume that such divisions are to be explained by appeal to evolutionary biology—evolved differences in suitability or preferences...

...) social issues, namely, education, health, medicine, and sports; (i) public policy, political philosophy, and law; and ( j) feminism, gender, and race. The list of contributors includes younger scholars as well as established figures in the field, such as Robert Bernasconi, Bernard Boxill, Jorge Gracia...

... harassment,” but are generally skeptical about much of sexual harass- ment law. The “sociocultural perspective,” exemplified by Catherine MacKin- non’s dominance perspective, proceeds from a general theory of feminism. On MacKinnon’s view, gender is a social category that divides society into two...

... his own moral vision could be given the same sort of appeal, to those who might aspire to exercise power, that had made the traditional fig- ures so enormously influential as models of how to live and act. This ties in directly with another of Hobbs’s main themes, that of gender. One aspect...

.... The purpose of this excellent essay is to dig deep into the issues surrounding the complex notion of objectivity, with the explicit purpose of demonstrating why analytic philosophers must recognize the crucial role of sex and gender in their work. Lloyd identifies four distinct mean- ings of “objectivity...

.... The purpose of this excellent essay is to dig deep into the issues surrounding the complex notion of objectivity, with the explicit purpose of demonstrating why analytic philosophers must recognize the crucial role of sex and gender in their work. Lloyd identifies four distinct mean- ings of “objectivity...

.... The purpose of this excellent essay is to dig deep into the issues surrounding the complex notion of objectivity, with the explicit purpose of demonstrating why analytic philosophers must recognize the crucial role of sex and gender in their work. Lloyd identifies four distinct mean- ings of “objectivity...

.... The purpose of this excellent essay is to dig deep into the issues surrounding the complex notion of objectivity, with the explicit purpose of demonstrating why analytic philosophers must recognize the crucial role of sex and gender in their work. Lloyd identifies four distinct mean- ings of “objectivity...

... as inalienable. We don't allow individuals to sell themselves into slavery or sell their kidneys because these sorts of choices fundamentally undermine the dignity and freedom of these individuals. Allen understands privacy, along with personal freedom and race and gender equality, as a foundational political...

... with the marriage debates of the last couple decades, and who might be lulled into thinking that the marriage debates are now over, given that the gender requirements for civil marriage are being removed in an increasing number of jurisdictions. In the second half of the book, Chambers lays out her alternative...

... Notes 1 In the preface, Ruben explains, “I do not think that use of grammatical gender in personal pronouns or possessive adjectives reveals anything of any importance, and so I use ‘his’, ‘he’, and so on, to indicate persons of any, or no, gender in the sexual sense. I hope that the reader...

... denotes the object assigned to it by the assignment (for simplicity, I ignore gender): ÂÂ ÃÃ ÂÂ ÃÃ g g she ¼ x 5 ¼ gð5Þ Similarly for I: its semantic value is just the object assigned to it by the assignment...

.... Unfortunately, expected contributions from Jerry Gaus and Charles Mills were not included due to their untimely deaths. One noted omission is the lack of any direct essay on the question of Rawls’s work and gender justice, which is surprising given the vast attention that particular topic has had since...

...- mentary on “second wave” feminism in France in the 1970s. Three essays by Moira Gatens, Judith Butler, and Debra B. Berghoffen deal with feminist inter- pretations of Beauvoir on the sex/gender distinction, social constructionist views, and Beauvoir’s discussion of sexuality. There is an essay...

..., Ruben explains, “I do not think that use of grammatical gender in personal pronouns or possessive adjectives reveals anything of any importance, and so I use ‘his’, ‘he’, and so on, to indicate persons of any, or no, gender in the sexual sense. I hope that the reader sensitive to these issues...

... not get equal chances. Defenders of the Lottery Requirement need a non-question-begging account of which biases are problematic. (One proposal: A long history of racist and sexist discourses, practices, and institutions makes it likely that a sensitivity to gender or race, unlike a sensitivity...

.... Ed. Julia Annas. Trans. Raphael Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxix, 158. Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender. Challenges in Con- temporary Theology. By Sarah Coakley. Malden: Blackwell, 2002. Pp. xx, 172. 101 Philosophy Problems. 2d. ed...

... clear that many of these debates miss out when they don't consider what SAT can offer. One remaining question is whether this new vision for SAT still leaves room for the vast and influential literature inspired by SAT outside of analytic philosophy—such as in gender studies and critical race theory...

... to psychoanalysis than to any philosophical view in theo- rizing issues about cinematic pleasure, desire, imagination, and gender identification. Perhaps a new psychology rather than a new philosophy is most needed. Such was the view adopted by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll in their parallel volume...

.... Can One Live After Auschwitz? A Philosophical Reader. By Theodor W. Adorno. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann. Translated by Rodney Livingstone and others. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 525. Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality. Edited by Linda Martin Alcoff...