After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender (Contemporary Political Theory) - Softcover

Warnke, Georgia

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9780521709293: After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender (Contemporary Political Theory)
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ISBN 10: 0521709296 ISBN 13: 9780521709293
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that identities, in general, are interpretations and, as such, have more in common with textual understanding than we commonly acknowledge. A racial, sexed or gendered understanding of who we and others are is neither exhaustive of the 'meanings' we can be said to have nor uniquely correct. We are neither always, or only, black or white, men or women or males or females. Rather, all identities have a restricted scope and can lead to injustices and contradictions when they are employed beyond that scope. In concluding her argument, Warnke considers the legal and policy implications that follow for affirmative action, childbearing leave, the position of gays in the military and marriage between same-sex partners.

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About the Author

Georgia Warnke is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Riverside.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521709296
ISBN 13 
9780521709293
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
268
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