Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- Works Cited -- Part I The Ontology of Sex and Gender -- 2 What Is Gender Essentialism -- A Brief Taxonomy of Essentialisms -- Uniessentialism and Gender -- Identity Essentialism and Gender -- Nominal and Real Essences -- Works Cited -- 3 Different Women. Gender and the Realism-Nominalism Debate -- Introduction -- The Argument from Social Construction -- The Argument from Diversity -- The role of definitions -- Haslanger's methodology -- Diversity and Haslanger's Account -- The Argument from Nonseparability -- The Argument from Particularity -- The Argument from Complexity -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 4 The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender -- Introduction -- Judith Butlers Account of Sex and Gender: An Interpretation -- The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir -- Butler Distinguished from a Radical Linguistic Constructivist -- The Elements of Butler's View -- Butler's Proposal: Life Is a Gender Game -- Critique -- Conferralism About Sex and Gender -- Conferralism About Gender -- Conferralism About Sex -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 5 Ontological Commitments, Sex and Gender -- Introduction -- Haslanger on Gender: An Example -- Problems with the Conventionalist and Abolitionist Implications -- The Conventionalist View Is Unintuitive -- The Abolitionist Implication Is Undesirable -- The Trait/Norm Covariance Model -- Ontological Commitments and the Trait/Norm Covarience Model -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- 6 Metaphors of Being a -- Works Cited -- Part II Persons and Subjectivity -- 7 The Metaphysics of Relational Autonomy -- Introduction -- Two Debates -- The Relational Debate -- Three Relational Views -- Relational Conditions for Autonomous Agency -- Relational Conditions for Autonomous Action -- Relational Conditions for Autonomous Choice.

The Metaphysical Debate -- Ability to Do Otherwise -- Argument 1 -- Causally Deterministic Histories -- Argument 2 -- Positions in the Metaphysical Debate -- The Metaphysics of Relational Autonomy -- Agency: Relational Autonomy Vs. Hard Determinism -- Action: Relational Autonomy Vs. Libertarianism -- Choice: Relational Autonomy Vs. Incompatibilism -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- 8 Beauvoir on the Allure of Self-Objectification -- Works Cited -- 9 A Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Types, Styles and Persons -- What Is Phenomenology -- Perceiving Women -- Personal Styles: Understanding Oneself and Others -- A Methodological Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part III Power, Ideology and Reality -- 10 The Politics and the Metaphysics of Experience -- Introduction -- Anti-foundationalism, Feminism and the Escape from the Model of Mind as Mirror -- Impersonal and First-Person Perspectives: Critical Positions Versus Avowals -- Agency and Models of the Mind -- Conclusion -- Work Cited -- 11 Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground -- Introduction -- Ideology -- Generics, Semantics and Pragmatics -- Generics -- Essences, Natures, and Coincidences -- Common Ground -- Generics and Implication -- Structures, Schemas, and Resources -- "Looping" and Social Kinds -- Critique -- Refusing to Accept the Common Ground -- Critique? -- Works Cited -- 12 Experience and Knowledge: The Case of Sexual Abuse Memories -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- Conclusion -- Work Cited -- Index.

This exciting new collection features original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. It is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a specifically feminist perspective.

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