Author: Diana J. Schaub Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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A treatment of Montesquieu's Persian Letters, which argues that the novel is a philosophic critique of despotism in all its forms: domestic, political and religious. It shows that Montesquieu believed that the Enlightenment failed as a philosophy by not recognising man as an erotic being.
Author: Jonathan David Gross Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742511620 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 252
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Byron: The Erotic Liberal explores the relationship between Byron's erotic life and his political commitments, placing his poetry in the context of the work of other aristocratic liberals such as Madame de Stael.
Author: Marvin Mahan Ellison Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press ISBN: 9780664256463 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
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Ethicist Marvin Ellison compellingly argues that current crises in family, personal life, and sexuality are related to our culture's prevailing attitudes about human sexuality. He proposes a liberating Christian ethic of erotic justice that goes beyond the prevailing patriarchal paradigm.
Author: Clare Chambers Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 027103503X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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Autonomy is fundamental to liberalism. But autonomous individuals often choose to do things that harm themselves or undermine their equality. In particular, women often choose to participate in practices of sexual inequality—cosmetic surgery, gendered patterns of work and childcare, makeup, restrictive clothing, or the sexual subordination required by membership in certain religious groups. In this book, Clare Chambers argues that this predicament poses a fundamental challenge to many existing liberal and multicultural theories that dominate contemporary political philosophy. Chambers argues that a theory of justice cannot ignore the influence of culture and the role it plays in shaping choices. If cultures shape choices, it is problematic to use those choices as the measure of the justice of the culture. Drawing upon feminist critiques of gender inequality and poststructuralist theories of social construction, she argues that we should accept some of the multicultural claims about the importance of culture in shaping our actions and identities, but that we should reach the opposite normative conclusion to that of multiculturalists and many liberals. Rather than using the idea of social construction to justify cultural respect or protection, we should use it to ground a critical stance toward cultural norms. The book presents radical proposals for state action to promote sexual and cultural justice.
Author: Ratna Kapur Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135310548 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 New Cosmologies: Mapping the Postcolonial Feminist Legal Project -- chapter Liberal internationalism and the capabilities approach -- chapter 3 Erotic Disruptions: Legal Narratives of Culture, Sex and Nation in India -- chapter Narratives of culture, sex, nation -- chapter The Bandit Queen -- chapter Homosexuality -- chapter 4 The Tragedy of Victimisation Rhetoric: Resurrecting the 'Native' Subject in International/Postcolonial Feminist Legal Politics -- chapter Cultural essentialism -- chapter 'Death by culture' -- chapter 5 The Other Side of Universality: Cross-Border Movements and the Transnational Migrant Subject -- chapter Colonial subjects and the meaning of 'universality' -- chapter The Other in the contemporary moment -- chapter (b) Equating migration with trafficking.
Author: Dorchen Leidholdt Publisher: Pergamon ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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In deze bundel wordt weerwerk geleverd tegen het Amerikaanse seksuele liberalisme, dat door een vrijwel ongelimiteerde seksuele vrijheid te propageren, direct en indirect afbreuk probeert te doen aan de verworvenheden van de feministische beweging. De aloude discussie over pro en contra pornografie wordt heropend, en ook over voortplantingstechnologie, seksueel geweld en incest nemen diverse auteurs verrassende en vernieuwende standpunten in.
Author: Peter Michelson Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791412237 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 330
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This book studies the literary and cinematic functions of the pornographic as a development from a poetics of obscenity. It focuses on the developments of French, British, and American artistic pornography since the eighteenth century. Discussing female literary figures including Hall, Wharton, Nin, "Reage," Jong, and Shulman; such men as Cleland, Sade, Beardsley, Lawrence, Joyce, and Miller; and film makers such as Brakhage, Jack Smith, Bruce Conner, Bertolucci, Oshima, and Wertmuller; Michelson analyzes both the use of aesthetic pornography and the philosophical, cultural, and legal implications of its use. He proposes that realizing the obscene --in the sense of speaking the unspeakable-- is the principle aesthetic function of pornography.
Author: G. Hekma Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137321466 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
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Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change.
Author: Diana J. Schaub
Author: Diana J. Schaub
Author: Jonathan David Gross
Author: Marvin Mahan Ellison
Author: Diana J. Schaub
Author: Clare Chambers
Author: Ratna Kapur
Author: Dorchen Leidholdt
Author: Peter Michelson
Author: G. Hekma