Research Catalog

Title

Race, class, gender, and sexuality : the big questions / edited by Naomi Zack, Laurie Shrage, Cripsin Sartwell.

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Zack, Naomi, 1944-
• Shrage, Laurie, 1953-
• Sartwell, Crispin, 1958-

Description

xiii, 410 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorizing on social identity." "The editors redirect classic philosophical questions about personal identity to the categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Readings consist of scholarly, popular, autobiographical, and literary writings that engage issues in racial theory, social and political philosophy, and feminism. A fifth part of the book on intersections illustrates the conceptual problems with essentialism and the taxonomy of identity politics. The importance of narrative accounts of social life within these significant identity categories is emphasized throughout the volume."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Philosophy, the big questions

Uniform Title

Philosophy, the big questions

Subject

• Social problems
• Social classes
• Race relations
• Sex role
• social issues
• social classes
• sex role
• Race relations
• Sex role
• Social classes
• Social problems
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Geschlechterrolle
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Sexualität
• Soziale Klasse
• Sociale klassen
• Rassenongelijkheid
• Sekseverschillen
• Gender roles

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• pt. 1. Race / edited by Naomi Zack -- ch. 1. Real status of blacks today / Derrick Bell -- ch. 2. Uncompleted argument: Du Bois and the illusion of race / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- ch. 3. Racism in the head, racism in the world / Judith Lichtenberg -- ch. 5. Reverse discrimination as unjustified / Lisa H. Newton -- ch. 6. Morality of reparation / Bernard R. Boxill -- ch. 7. Fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon -- ch. 8. Prison of color / Virginia R. Harris -- ch. 9. Mixed black and white race and public policy / Naomi Zack.
• pt. 2. Class / edited by Crispin Sartwell -- ch. 10. Civil government is for defence of rich against poor / Adam Smith -- ch. 11. Manifesto of the communist party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- ch. 12. Economy and society / Max Weber -- ch. 13. Men and jobs / Elliot Liebow -- ch. 14. Seeing ourselves through the eyes of the other: an intellectual and spiritual journey / Dasiea Cavers-Huff and Janice Kolitz -- ch. 15. Gilded lilies and liberal guilt / Patricia J. Williams.
• ch. 16. Working-class culture / Joanna Kadi -- pt. 3. Gender / edited by Laurie Shrage -- ch. 17. Gender treachery: homophobia, masculinity, and threatened identities / Patrick D. Hopkins -- ch. 18. Interpreting gender / Linda J. Nicholson -- ch. 19. Matter of discipline: reading for gender in Jewish philosophy / Susan E. Shapiro -- ch. 20. Stages on Kant's way: aesthetics, morality and the gendered sublime / Christine Battersby.
• pt. 4. Sexuality / edited by Laurie Shrage -- ch. 21. Saint Foucault / David M. Halperin -- ch. 22. Refiguring lesbian desire / Elizabeth Grosz -- ch. 23. Markets in women's sexual labor / Debra Satz -- ch. 24. Talking sex / Bell Hooks -- ch. 25. Deconstructive strategies and the movement against sexual violence / Renée Heberle -- pt. 5. Intersections / edited by Crispin Sartwell -- ch. 26. Mother tongue / Amy Tan.
• ch. 27. Confessions of a nice negro, or why I shaved my head / Robin D.G. Kelley -- ch. 28. Green frog skin / John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- ch. 29. Aren't you in the wrong neighborhood? / William Upski Wimsatt -- ch. 30. Sunset trailer part / Allan Bérubé -- ch. 31. Culture of complaint / Eobert Hughes -- ch. 32. Have we got a theory for you! / María C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman -- ch. 33. Long line of vendidas / Cherríe Moraga.

ISBN

• 0631208747
• 9780631208747
• 0631208755
• 9780631208754

LCCN

97050241

OCLC

• ocm38061664
• 38061664
• SCSB-8965537

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library