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Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Philosophical Issues of Identity and Justice
Jami L. Anderson, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Flint

ISBN-10: 0130980811
ISBN-13: 9780130980816

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 624 pp
Published: 09/06/2002

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For philosophy-focused undergraduate-level Introduction to Race, Sex, and Gender courses, or courses that focus on race, sex, and gender.

This thematic anthology of contemporary articles/court cases on race, sex, and gender is divided into three sections. The anthology identity issues, then injustices and inequalities, and then specific social and legal issues relevant to race, sex, and gender. By exposing students to theoretical foundations, opposing views, and “real life” applications, the reader prepares students to make critically-reasoned decisions concerning today's social problems.

  • Philosophical analysis of race, sex, and gender concepts.

    • Provides philosophy instructors with a text designed specifically with their needs in mind, saving them the time and work they usually have to spend in adapting other texts and materials on the subject (e.g., from sociology).

  • Independent, yet thematically linked, sections—Section I features articles and court cases that address sex, gender, and race identity and lay the theoretical foundation for the rest of the text. Section II includes articles and court cases that address inequalities and injustices—e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism, and homophobia. Primarily theoretical in nature, they address questions such as “What is racism?” rather than discussion of particular social issues such as affirmative action. Section III offers 5 chapter-length discussions on different social issues—preferential treatment, discriminatory harassment, identity speech, sexual speech, and sexual assault—addressing various ways to conceptualize and legally respond to the issues. Throughout, each chapter includes some articles that touch on issues raised in the other chapters.

    • Allows instructors to teach topics independently or in specific combinations to stress thematic connections.

  • Short excerpts from recent legal cases.

    • Shows students how race, sex, and gender issues are relevant to “real life.”

  • “Case studies”—Several at the end of each chapter. Provide brief descriptions of very recent events culled from newspapers.

    • Encourages students to recognize theoretical implications of practices and public policies.

  • Opposing viewpoints—Concerning the issues.

    • Enables students to analyze conflicting points of view.

(NOTE: Each chapter begins with Introduction and concludes with Case Studies.)

Introduction.

Tips for Reading the Articles in This Text. Thinking Critically About Race, Sex, and Gender.

I. IDENTITY.

1. Sex and Gender Identity.

The Five Sexes, Anne Fausto-Sterling. The Other Questions, Kate Borstein. Are Lesbians Women?, Jacob Hale. Transgender Butch, Judith Halberstam. Littleton v. Prange.

2. Sexuality and Sexual Orientation.

The Homosexual Role, Mary McIntosh. The Thing of It Is, Richard Mohr. Choosing Lesbianism, Claudia Card. Male Lesbians and the Postmodernist Body, Jacquelyn Zita. Bowers v. Hardwick.

3. Race and Ethnicity.

Du Bois on the Invention of Race, Tommy Lott. Whiteness Is…, Peter McLaren. Mestizo Identity, Linda Alcoff. “But What Are You Really?,” Charles Mills. Takao Ozawa v. United States. United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. Doe v. State of Louisiana.

II. INEQUALITIES AND INJUSTICES.

4. Racism.

Racisms, Anthony Appiah. Uplifting the Race, Bill E. Lawson. Decision Making, Robert D. Bullard. Cowboys and…, Jimmie Durham. McCleskey v. Kemp.

5. Sexism.

Racism, Sexism, and Preferential Treatment, Richard Wasserstrom. Demarginalizing the Intersection, Kimberle Crenshaw. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images, Patricia Hill Collins. Oppression by Choice, Ann E. Cudd. Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County. Rostker v. Goldberg.

6. Heterosexism and Homophobia.

Gay Basics, Richard Mohr. Gender Treachery, Patrick Hopkins. The Unique Propensity to Engage in Homosexual Acts, Jami L. Anderson. In the Shadows of a Diva: Committing Homosexuality in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, David L. Eng. Roe v. Roe. Bottoms v. Bottoms. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale.

III. SOCIAL, MORAL, AND LEGAL ISSUES.

7. Equality and Preferential Treatment.

The Morality of Reparation, Bernard Boxill. Why Do We Need Affirmative Action?, Laura M. Purdy. Secondary Sexism and Quota Hiring, Mary Anne Warren. University of California Regents v. Bakke. United States v. Paradise. Moore v. Hughes Heliocopers, Inc.

8. Discriminatory Harassment.

Crimes Against Humanity, Ward Churchill. Police Discretion and Discrimination, Howard McGary. A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment, Anita Superperson. Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. Joseph Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Incorporated, et al. Allen v. Michigan Department of Corrections.

9. Identity Speech and Political Speech.

If He Hollers Let Him Go, Charles Lawrence. Doe v. University of Michigan. R.A.V. v. St. Paul Minnesota. The Outing Controversy, Richard Mohr. Coming Out, Outing, and the Right to Privacy, James S. Stramel. Sipple v. Chronicle Publishing Company.

10. Sexual Speech.

Sex, Lies, and Respect, Ann Garry. Looking for My Penis—The Exoticized Asian in Gay Video Porn, Richard Fung. Just Looking for Trouble: Robert Maplethorpe and Fantasies of Race, Kobena Mercer. American Booksellers Assn. v. Hudnut. Barnes v. Glen Theatre.

11. Sexual Assault.

Is Rape Sex or Violence? Conceptual Issues and Implications, Muelenhard, Danoff-Burg, Powch. Rape, Racism, and the Myth of the Black Rapist, Angela Davis. Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement Against Sexual Violence, René Heberle. State of Maryland v. Edward Salvatore Rusk. Commonwealth v. Mlinarich.

Appendix: Glossary of Legal Terms.

For Sociology of Gender


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