Gay Ethics

Controversies in Outing, Civil Rights, and Sexual Science

Timothy F Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

365 Seiten

1994
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56024-671-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Gay Ethics is an anthology that addresses ethical questions involving key moral issues of today--sexual morality, outing, gay and lesbian marriages, military service, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action policies, the moral significance of sexual orientation research, and the legacy of homophobia in health care. It focuses on these issues within the social context of the lives of gay men and lesbians and makes evident the ways in which ethics can and should be reclaimed to pursue the moral good for gay men and lesbians.Gay Ethics is a timely book that illustrates the inadequacies of various moral arguments used in regard to homosexuality. This book reaches a new awareness for the standing and treatment of gay men and lesbians in society by moving beyond conventional philosophical analyses that focus exclusively on the morality of specific kinds of sexual acts, the nature of perversion, or the cogency of scientific accounts of the origins of homoeroticism. It raises pertinent questions about the meaning of sexuality for private and public life, civics, and science.
Some of the issues covered:



Sexual Morality
Outing
Same-Sex Marriage
Military Service
Anti-Discrimination Laws
Affirmative Action Policy
The Scientific Study of Sexual Orientation
Bias in Psychoanalysis
Homophobia in Health CareGay Ethics presents a wide range of perspectives but remains united in the common purpose of illuminating moral arguments and social policies as they involve homosexuality. The chapters challenge social oppression in the military, civil rights, and the social conventions observed among gay men and lesbians themselves. This book is applicable to a broad range of academics working in gay and lesbian studies and because of its current content, is of interest to an educated lay public. It will be a standard reference point for future discussion of the matters it addresses.

Autor

Timothy F. Murphy holds a doctorate in philosophy from Boston College and is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences. He teaches in the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the co-editor of both Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (Columbia University Press, 1993) and Justice and the Human Genome Project (University of California Press, 1994). He is also the author of Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture (forthcoming from the University of California Press) and is writing a book on the ethics of sexual reorientation therapy.

Inhalt

Contents
Part I: Starting Points



Introduction
Homosex/Ethics
Part II: Outing and the Closet
The Closet and the Ethics of Outing
Privacy and the Ethics of Outing
Outing, Truth-Telling, and the Shame of the Closet
Coming Out, Being Out, and Acts of Virtue
Part III: Civil Rights and Social Justice
Gay Marriage: A Civil Right
The Military Ban and the ROTC: A Case Study in Closeting
A Moral Justification for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Legislation
Gay Rights and Affirmative Action
Part IV: The Moral Meanings of Science
Explaining Homosexuality: Philosophical Issues, and Who Cares Anyhow?
The Relevance of Scientific Research About Sexual Orientation to Lesbian and Gay Rights
Fixation and Regression in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Homosexuality: A Critical Evaluation
Homophobia and the Moral Authority of Medicine
Index
Reference Notes Included

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.1994
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 210 mm
• Gewicht: 725 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-56024-671-5 / 1560246715
• ISBN-13: 978-1-56024-671-8 / 9781560246718
• Zustand: Neuware