Sex and gender : a spectrum of views /

Sex and gender : a spectrum of views / Sex & gender [edited by] Philip E. Devine, Celia Wolf-Devine. - xviii, 414 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-412).

Methodological Prologue: How Should We Think About Sex and Gender? A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover / The Fruits of Unreason / Male and Female: Is the Distinction Natural or Conventional? My Conundrum / The Principle of Totality - A Possible Justification for Transsexual Surgery? / The Universality of Sex Roles / The Primacy of Gender Attribution / Sex Roles and the Ideal Society / Biology, Mere and Otherwise / Sex and Gender / Sexuality: The Flesh and the Spirit. The Inherent Privacy of Sex / Intercourse / The Place of Sex Among Human Values / Sexual Perversion / Reproduction as the Goal of Sexuality / Sexual Intercourse: Its Relation to the Rest of Women's Sexual Role / The Politics of Orgasm / Late Victorians / From Old Gay to New / The Ladder of Eros / Reproduction: How Far Should We Try to Control it? We Do Abortions Here / A Defense of Abortion / Abortion and the 'Feminine Voice' / Birth Control and the Ideals of Marital Sexuality / Marriage and Contraception / Collaborative Reproduction: Donors and Surrogates / Technology as Destiny / Cutting Motherhood in Two / Marriage and Family: Is the Traditional Family a Good Thing? Existential Ethics and Why It's Immoral to Be a Housewife / Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds: Deference and Disaffection in Women's Emotional Labor / Justice and the Family / Liberalism and the Limits of Justice / Justice, Gender, and the Family / The Power of the Positive Woman / "Feminists Against the Family" / When the Bough Breaks / Politics: Gender in the Public Arena. Sex Wars: Not the Fun Kind / Political Philosophies of Women's Liberation / Reweaving Society / Is the Favoring of Women and Blacks in Employment and Educational Opportunities Justified? / In Defense of Hiring Apparently Less Qualified Women / Sexual Harassment: Its First Decade in Court (1986) / Reckless Eyeballing / Men Without Women / Homosex/Ethics / The Conservative Case for Same-Sex Marriage / 'Same-Sex Marriage' and 'Moral Neutrality' / The Question of Marriage: Two Arguments / Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation? / Retying the Knot / Religion: Naming the Supreme Being. The Sacredness of Nature and Cosmic Religion: Sky Gods and Mother Earth / Genesis: Chapters 1-3. Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections / Basic Linguistic Options: God, Women, Equivalence ... / On the Fatherhood of God and Is 'God the Mother' Just as Good? / Making Inclusive Language Inclusive: A Christian Gay Man's View / God the Father, God the Mother, and Goddesses / Why Christians Name God 'Father' / Ecofeminism: Symbolic and Social Connections of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature / Women in Genesis 1-3 / Traditional Judaism and Feminine Spirituality / D. H. Lawrence. Janet Radcliffe Richards -- Jan Morris. Anthony Mastroeni. Stephen B. Clark. Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna. Richard Wasserstrom. Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes. Roger Scruton -- Richard Mohr. Andrea Dworkin. Bertrand Russell. Thomas Nagel. Richard Connell. Niles Newton. Susan Lydon. Richard Rodriguez. Arlene Stein. Plato -- Sallie Tisdale. Judith Jarvis Thomson. Celia Wolf-Devine. Rosemary Radford Ruether. Cormac Burke. John Robertson. Jean Bethke Elshtain. Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson -- Donald L. Hatcher. Sandra Bartky. John Rawls. Michael Sandel. Susan Moller Okin. Phyllis Schlafly. Jean Bethke Elshtain. Sylvia Ann Hewlett -- Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Alison Jaggar. Juli Loesch Wiley. Louis Katzner. Laura Purdy. Catharine MacKinnon. Katie Roiphe. Michael Novak. Timothy F. Murphy. Andrew Sullivan. Robert P. George. David Orgon Coolidge. Paula Ettelbrick. E. J. Graff -- Mircea Eliade. Carol P. Christ. Elizabeth Johnson. Juli Loesch Wiley. Richard Davis. Susanne Heine. Gary Culpepper. Rosemary Radford Ruether. Edith Black. Tamar Frankiel.

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Sex.
Sex--Philosophy
Sex role
Sex differences (Psychology)
Man-woman relationships--Philosophy

HQ21. / S4714 2003

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