The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race

Auteur

Sally Markowitz is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Willamette University and the cofounder of Willamette's Women's Studies program. She has taught philosophy and gender studies for many years, and her articles and reviews in the fields of aesthetics, feminism, and gender studies have appeared in a variety of academic journals and anthologies.

Texte du rabat

The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European classifications of sex/gender and those of race, and how these classifications have been co-constructed through a White, sex/gender-binary ideal for the male-female couple.

Contenu

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Binary sex and its skeptics

2 Whiteness: Gender-binary from the start

3 Making (male) homosexuality white

4 Orientalism and the gender-binary ideal in The Second Sex

5 Intersectionality and the racial gender-binary ideal

Afterword

Index