Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/6O4yFB Ontology of Sex By: Carrie Hull Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415359795, 0415359791 eText ISBN: 9781134239924, 1134239920 Edition: 1st Pages: 208 Copyright year: 2005 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134239924R90 Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in natural sex categories and instincts. Here, Carrie Hull endorses the progressive ideals of poststructuralism while demonstrating the superiority of a realist account of sex and sexuality. Embracing biological and cultural variability, Hull nonetheless shows that the sexed body is naturally structured and deeply meaningful. Poststructuralist philosophers have argued that biological sex is a continuum rather than a binary, and that sex identity and drive are entirely performances of cultural norms rather than expressions of innate qualities. Hull draws parallels with Nelson Goodman, W.V.O. Quine, and B.F. Skinner to show that these poststructuralist theories are rooted in a nominalist, relativist, and behaviourist philosophy, and develops an alternative framework using arguments from contemporary and critical realism. Employing colourful illustrations from biology, anthropology and psychology, Hull demonstrates the rich potential of realist philosophy, and concludes that it is philosophically and scientifically correct, on one hand, and politically advisable, on the other, to maintain a distinction - albeit attenuated - between sex and gender, and sexuality and behaviour. Additional ISBNs 9780203007785, 9786610291632, 9781134239931, 9781134239924, 9781280291630, 9781134239887, 0203007786, 6610291632, 1134239939, 1134239920, 128029163X, 1134239882, 9780415359795, 9780802037428, 0415359791, 0802037429, 9780415464369, 0415464366
