Sexuality : a reader / edited by Karen Lebacqz with David Sinacore-Guinn.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cleveland, Ohio : The Pilgrim Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: viii, 595 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0829812105
- 9780829812107
- 306.7 23
- HQ21. S4754 1999
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 306.7 SEX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A528894B |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The Method Behind the Madness -- Embodiment -- Our Bodies, Our Selves -- The Relational Self -- The Social Construction of Sexuality -- Sexual Violence -- The Personal Is Political -- Text -- Tradition -- Reason -- Experience -- Contemporary Proposals -- --
Introduction: The Method Behind The Madness -- Embodiment -- 1. The Moral Significance of Female Orgasm: Toward Sexual Ethics That Celebrates Women's Sexuality -- 2. Embracing Masculinity -- 3. In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis: The Medicalization of Male Sexuality -- 4. Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies -- -- Our Bodies, Our Selves -- 5. The Jewish Self -- 6. Claiming Power-in-Relation: Exploring the Ethics of Connection -- 7. Celibacy, Chastity -- -- The Relational Self -- 8. Appropriate Vulnerability: A Sexual Ethic for Singles -- 9. Making Love as a Means of Grace: Women's Reflections -- 10. Sexuality and Marital Relations -- -- The Social Construction of Sexuality -- 11. Women's Sex Talk and Men's Sex Talk: Different Worlds -- 12. Pleasure and Performance: Male Sexuality -- 13. Capitalism and Gay Identity -- 14. Sexism in the Early Sangha: Its Social Basis and Philosophical Dissolution -- -- Sexual Violence -- 15. Tamar: The Royal Rape of Wisdom -- 16. Men on Rape -- 17. On the Nature of Rape -- -- The Personal Is Political -- 18. No Longer a Wife: Widows in Rural North India -- 19. Hunger -- 20. Heterosexuality and Feminist Theory -- 21. Erotic Justice -- 22. Sexuality and Christian Ethics: How to Proceed -- -- Text -- 23. An Islamic Perspective -- 24. Sexual Subversions in the Bible -- 25. The Gender Symbolism of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva -- -- Tradition -- 26. Sati, Sacrifice, and Marriage: The Modernity of Tradition -- 27. Jewish Attitudes toward Divorce -- 28. Casti Connubii, Humanae Vitae, and Familiaris Consortio -- -- Reason -- 29. Sexual Perversion -- 30. Lesbian Ethics -- -- Experience -- 31. Human Experience and Women's Experience: Resources for Catholic Ethics -- 32. Locating My Theology in Sacred Places -- -- Contemporary Proposals -- 33. New Testament Sexual Ethics and Today's World -- 34. Toward a Theology of Human Sexuality -- 35. Sexual Morality in Five Tiers -- 36. Making Love as Making Justice: Toward a New Jewish Ethic of Sexuality
"Weaving sources from Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, and Christian perspectives around a common theme, this book hosts many semantic and ethical duels and dialogues on a variety of subjects -- celibacy, singleness, partnered sex, marriage, divorce, gay and heterosexual sexuality, rape, and others."
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