Full Description
How are sex and gender related? Are they the same thing? What exactly is gender? How many genders are there? What is the science on all of this? Is gender a product of nature, nurture, or both? This book introduces readers to fundamental questions about sex and gender categories as they've been considered across the centuries and through a wide array of disciplines and perspectives. From the Bible to Darwin, from Enlightenment thinkers to contemporary trans philosophers, Beyond the Binary comprises an accessible survey of the wide range of views about sex and gender. This revised and expanded edition uses updated terminology and diagnostic criteria and offers new material with a greater focus on trans, Indigenous, racialized, and subaltern thinkers. It includes useful discussion questions and further reading recommendations at the end of each chapter, as well as an extensive glossary of terms.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Framing, Tools, Terms
Chapter 3: Aristotelian and Judeo-Christian Models of Sex Difference
Chapter 4: The Second Sex
Chapter 5: The Third Sex?
Chapter 6: Gender in BIPOC and Subaltern Cultures
Chapter 7: Intersex
Chapter 8: Trans
Chapter 9: Biodeterminism
Chapter 10: The One-Sex Model
Chapter 11: Difference and Equality
Chapter 12: Sex/Gender as Social Construction
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography
Index
