Der Realität widerstehen

What does it mean to be a woman or a man, black or white? Feminist and anti-racist theories give seemingly contradictory answers to this question: While some understand these categories as socially constructed, insofar as falling under them means being in certain social relations of subordination, others think of them as objective, insofar as falling under them has real consequences for people that are difficult to escape. In this collection of groundbreaking essays, philosopher Sally Haslanger develops a social constructionist theory of social species that takes equal account of these two requirements.