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After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender (Contemporary Political Theory)
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Georgia Warnke (Author)
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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.
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- Contributor: Georgia Warnke
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521882811
- Number of Pages: 266
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x19mm
- Packaged Weight: 540
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2008-01-10
- Series: Contemporary Political Theory
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Georgia Warnke is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Riverside.
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