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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Margaret A Farley |
| ISBN: | 9780826429247 0826429246 |
| OCLC Number: | 191753783 |
| Notes: | Includes index. Originally published: 2006. |
| Description: | xiii, 322 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. OPENING THE QUESTIONS -- Finding the way : Why we are here ; New maps ; Problems with the terrain -- The task -- 2. THE QUESTIONS AND THEIR PAST -- Sex, morality, and history : theories of interpretation : Michel Foucault : the historical constitution of desire ; Catherine MacKinnon : historical silences/gendered violence ; Evolutionary histories : sexuality and change -- Sexual ethics in the west : historical perspective : Sexuality in antiquity : the legacy of Greece and Rome ; Judaism : sexuality, morality, and religion ; Christian traditions ; Secular paths : philosophical developments, medical influences -- From the past to the present -- 3. DIFFICULT CROSSINGS: diverse traditions -- Cross-cultural perspectives : importance for sexual ethics : Possibilities of cross-cultural and interreligious awareness ; Obstacles to the search for alternative perspectives -- Colonialist research and its postcolonial critics : The lessons of "orientalism'' ; Lessons for sexual ethics -- Pre-modern islands of the South Seas -- African cultures : Sexuality and community ; Gender, marriage, and family ; New interpreters and critics : sustainable African sexualities -- Kamasutra : Hindu textbook on erotic love -- The world of Islam -- Diversity unlimited? -- 4. SEXUALITY AND ITS MEANINGS -- How the body matters : Theories of the body ; Transcendent embodiment -- Whether gender matters : Gender theory and practice ; Christian theologies ; Biology, culture, and experience ; Biology, culture, and more experience ; Whether gender matters -- Sexuality and its meanings : Elements in sexual experience ; Love, desire, and sexuality -- 5. JUST LOVE AND JUST SEX : preliminary considerations -- Sexuality and justice -- Alternative frameworks -- Sources for Christian sexual ethics : Scripture ; Tradition ; Secular disciplines of knowledge ; Contemporary experience -- Love and just love : Moral norms for a Just Love ; Love and freedom ; Desire -- 6. FRAMEWORK FOR A SEXUAL ETHICS : just sex -- Justice : The concrete reality of persons ; Obligating features of personhood -- Norms for Just Sex : Do no unjust harm ; Free consent ; Mutuality ; Equality ; Commitment ; Fruitfulness ; Social justice -- Special questions : An ethic only for adults? ; Sexual relations with oneself ; The negative potential of sex -- 7. PATTERNS OF RELATIONSHIP: contexts for just love -- Marriage and family : Historical and cultural contexts ; Christianity and its influences : Descriptive and normative questions -- Same-Sex relationships : theological and ethical sources ; Same-sex relationships and justice ; Sexual orientation: given or chosen -- Divorce and remarriage : The marriage commitment: making, keeping, changing ; Divorce ; Remarriage. |
| Responsibility: | Margaret A. Farley. |
Abstract:
Proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. This book provides historical and
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