Categories we live by: the construction of sex, gender, race, and other social categories
In: Studies in feminist philosophy
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Philosophy
We are women, we are men. We are refugees, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they constructed? This text addresses these questions and offers a bold, new theory of social categories.