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Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Quest for Certainty; Chapter 3 Twentieth-Century Nominalism, Relativism and Behaviorism, Goodman, Quine, Foucault; Chapter 4 Poststructuralist and Constructivist Feminism; Chapter 5 Contemporary Realism’s Challenge to Nominalism; Chapter 6 Structure and the Evolution of Sexual form and Meaning; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
Biography
Carrie Hull has taught at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Toronto, Canada. Her previous publications have appeared in Philosophy and Social Criticism, Radical Philosophy, New Political Science, and Environmental Values
