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Book SynopsisThe way society is organized means that we all get made into members of various types of people, such as judges, wives, or women. These ''human social kinds'' may be brought into being by oppressive social arrangements, and people may suffer oppression in virtue of being made into a member of a certain human social kind; this much is obvious. In Ontology and Oppression, Katharine Jenkins goes further, arguing that we should pay attention to the ways in which the very fact of being made into a member of a certain human social kind can be oppressive. She supplies three conceptual tools needed to understand this phenomenon. The first tool is an analysis of this general form of wrong, termed ''ontic injustice''. The second tool is an account of ''ontic oppression'', a kind of ontic injustice in which the wrong amounts to a form of oppression, in the sense of being structural and pervasive. The third tool is a pluralist account of race and gender kinds, according to which there is no single
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Ontic Injustice Chapter 2: Ontic Oppression Chapter 3: The Constraints and Enablements Framework Chapter 4: Hegemonic Race and Gender Kinds and Ontic Oppression Chapter 5: Interpersonal Race and Gender Kinds and Ontic Oppression Chapter 6: Race and Gender Identity Kinds and Ontic Oppression Chapter 7: The Constraints and Enablements Framework Revisited Chapter 8: Against the Ontology-First Approach to Gender Recognition Conclusion Bibliography Index
