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After identity, rethinking race, sex, and gender, Georgia Warnke

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After identity

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Georgia Warnke

Contemporary political theoryCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

rethinking race, sex, and gender

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.--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: reading individuals -- The tragedy of David Reimer -- Racial identification and identity -- Race and interpretation -- Sex and science -- Rethinking sex and gender identities -- Marriage, the military, and identity -- Hermeneutics and the politics of identity