From the categories we use to organise society, to the institutions and practices that govern everyday life, the social world profoundly shapes who we are and what we can become. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at MIT and author of the landmark book Resisting Reality, is one of the world’s leading philosophers of social structure. Haslanger traces how categories like gender and race are built and sustained by networks of practice and power – and how making those mechanisms visible is the crucial first step toward changing them.

Part 1: Gender, Race and the Architecture of Power: Haslanger examines how categories like gender and race materially organise and influence our practices, interactions and institutions as products of power rather than nature.

Part 2: How to Dismantle a Social Structure: Haslanger turns to the question of agency and transformation - asking how social structures can be challenged and dismantled.

"Haslanger is one of the very best analytic feminists in the country." — Society for Women in Philosophy