Invented Moralities (eBook)

Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty

Jeffrey Weeks (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-6906-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.

Autor

Jeffrey Weeks is Professor of Sociology at South Bank University and the author of The Lesser Evil and the Greater Good (Rivers Oram, 1994), Against Nature (Rivers Oram, 1991) and Sexuality (Tavistock, 1986).

Inhalt

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Values, Whose Values?.

1. Living with Uncertainty.

2. Inventing Moralities.

3. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics
of Diversity.

4. The Sphere of the Intimate, and the Values of Everyday
Life.

5. Caught Between Worlds and Ways of Being.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

'His 'nouveau' morality combines the acceptance of erotic diversity
with the valuation of responsibility, love, care and solidarity. It
is a moving and inspiring read.' Tribune

'[An] important book.' The Guardian

'Jeffrey Weeks' Invented Moralities is a response to the
heated debate about sexual morality which has emerged over the past
20 years as the destabilisation of the 'heterosexual tradition' has
become increasingly apparent.' Living Marxism

'Lively and wide-ranging, Weeks' book combines humour with
scholarship, personal experience with observation to make a serious
contribution to debates about fundamental issues such as love, sex
and the importance of relationships. Weeks' advocacy of humanistic
pluralism, as he identifies it, is provocative, thoughtful and very
persuasive.' Morning Star

'A well-argued message of hope and encouragement ... this book
is an important contribution to the discourse of post-modernity as
well as sexual (particularly gay and lesbian) identities and
moralities. It ought to be widely read and discussed.'
Sociology

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Gender & Sexuality • Gender Studies • Geschlechterforschung • Geschlecht u. Sexualität • Geschlecht u. Sexualität • Kulturwissenschaften • Sociology • Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-6906-9 / 0745669069
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6906-9 / 9780745669069