Hayot 10-1: "The social practices and institutions that govern the workings of gender worldwide--not to mention the individual experiences of gender and sexuality that help compost a self--have been completely transformed in the last fifty years for nearly everyone on the planet. This is a case of the kind of knowledge that humanists produce having enormous sociopolitical and individual effects, from the passage of laws to the reorganization of labor markets to the institutionalization of legitimate insurance claims to individual decisions about what to wear, how to love, or how to live. These effects are the products of humanist truth, a truth that results from a combination of philosophical imagination, historical and sociological description and analysis, and writing, teaching, and advocacy work. What happens if we attribute these undoubtedly positive (though often rejected and resisted) changes to the work of new humanist knowledge?"