PrefaceA Prologue on Democracy1. The Two Sides of Gender ThinkingPositive Gender Thinking -Critical Gender Thinking -Implications for Our Study2. On Conceiving the HumanThe "Human" -"Nature" -Following Nature -Gender as an Anthropological Theme3. Gender and HumanityThe Problem: How to Behave -How Gender Qualifies Gender -Gender and Central Human Projects -Gender and Other Human Kinds Compared -Human Nature as an Endowment of Diversities4. The Sex "Basis" of GenderThe Problem of Junction Between Intentional and Descriptive Concepts -The Structure of Embodiment -Qualifications of Intention by Sex -Gender and Biological Facts -Human Nature as Animal Nature: Human Biology and Anthropology -Human Nature as animal nature: The Beast Within -The Case of Sexual Jealousy -Human Nature as Sexual Consistency: The Racial Parallel5. Gender, Valuation, and SelfhoodThe Attractions of Gender and "Finer Feelings": Kant -The Structure of Valuing -A Puzzle: How can a Valuer Value a Different Way of Valuing? -The Gendering of Ethics: Gilligan -Pornography and Other Pathologies of Gender Valuation -Androgyny and Perplexity -Gender Character and "True Self" -Gendered Selfhood and the Asymmetry Problem in High Noon -Human Nature as a Set of Gendered Métiers6. Gender and DualityThe Problem: How to Think -Structures of Duality -Metaphysical Gender-Duality Theories: Hegel and Levinas -Theological Gender-Duality Theories: The Shakers and Paul -Social-Scientific Gender-Duality Theories: Freud and Lévi-Strauss -Human Nature as a Harmony of the Sexes and Genders7. Gender and ProcreationThe Relevance of Procreation to Gender and Human Nature -The Structure of Procreative Activity -Generationality, Potentiation, and Determination -Gender and Issues of Procreative ChoiceConclusion: Realizing SexRealized Imaginatively -Realized Intellectually -Realized Spiritually -Realized PracticallyNotesIndex.