490 Pages
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Routledge
Combining philosophical rigor with detailed knowledge of a wide range of subjects, Michael Levin presents a thorough examination of feminism as both a theory and as a generator of social policy. His book provides a much-needed counterweight to uncritical feminist scholarship prevalent in so much social science writing. Levin argues that feminists deny that innate sex differences have anything to... Read more
Preface 1. Overview 2. What is Feminism? 3. Innateness 4. Sex Differences 5. Affirmative Action 6. Comparable Worth 7. Education: The Lower Grades 8. Education: The Universities 9. Feminism, Education, and the State 10. Sports 11. The Forces of Order 12. Language 13. Sex, the Family, and the Liberal Order 14. Feminism and the Future.
Biography
Michael Levin is professor of philosophy at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of City University of New York. He is the author of Metaphysics and the Mind-body Problem, and has written extensively on ethics, epistemology, and the foundations of science and mathematics.
