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Title Philosophy and sex : adultery, monogamy, feminism, rape, same-sex marriage, abortion, promiscuity, perversion / edited by Robert B. Baker and Kathleen J. Wininger
Edition Fourth edition
Published Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009

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Description 519 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Love, marriage and reproduction. Love : a feminist critique / Shulamith Firestone -- Love and feminism / Robert C. Solomon -- Sexual lust and original sin / Augustine -- Of the reason for which simple fornication is a sin by divine law / Thomas Aquinas -- Humanae vitae / Pope Paul VI -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Comparing the output cutoff argument with Thomson's argument / Frances Myrna Kamm -- On spinsters / Kathleen J. Wininger -- Marital faithfulness / Susan Mendus -- Is adultery immoral? / Richard Wasserstrom -- Adultery and fidelity / Martin W. Martin -- Apartheid and homophobia : both crimes against humanity / Archbishop Desmond Tutu -- Same-sex marriage in South Africa : the constitutional court's judgment / Beth Goldblatt -- Moral reasoning in judicial decisions on same-sex marriage / Alicia Ouellette -- Is it wrong to discriminate on the basis of homosexuality? / Jeff Jordan -- Rawls's principle of justice as fairness and its application to the issue of same-sex marriage / John Scott Gray -- Gender, sexuality, and perversion. "Pricks" and "chicks" : a plea for "persons" / Robert B. Baker -- Linquistic sexes and genders / Luce Irigaray -- Where is she in language? / Heĺeǹe Cixous -- Sexual perversion / Thomas Nagel -- Sexual use and what to do about it : internalist and externalist sexual ethics / Alan Soble -- Why homosexuality is abnormal / Michael Levin -- An essay on "paederasty" / Jeremy Bentham -- The biomedical gaze : how medical models affect social concepts of the life cycle / Robert B. Baker -- Taking responsibility for sexuality / Joyce Trebilcot -- Culture and women's sexualities / Evelyn Blackwood -- The five sexes : why male and female are not enough / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- A history of intersex : from the age of gonads to the age of consent / Alice Domurat Dreger -- Pediatric ethics and the surgical assignment of sex / Kenneth Kipnis and Milton Diamond -- The international bill of gender rights -- To cut or not to cut / Kathleen J. Wininger -- Desire, pornography, and rape. Patriarchal sex / Robert Jensen -- Queerness, disability, and The vagina monologues / Kim Q. Hall -- Abusive images belittle women, men, and sex / Robert Jensen -- Surviving sexual violence : a philosophical perspective / Susan J. Brison -- Men in groups : collective responsibility for rape / Larry May and Robert Strikwerda -- Is there a history of sexuality? / David M. Halperin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Sexual ethics.
Sex customs.
Marriage.
Moral conditions.
Author Baker, Robert, 1937-
Wininger, Kathleen J.
LC no. 2009017699
ISBN 9781591026099 paperback alkaline paper
1591026091 paperback alkaline paper