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

Warnke, Georgia

ISBN 10: 0521709296 / ISBN 13: 9780521709293

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

About this Item

This book explores our understanding of gender, sex and racial identities in individuals. Series: Contemporary Political Theory. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 438. . 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender (Contemporary Political Theory)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521709296
• ISBN 13: 9780521709293
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

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