Philosophy of Sex and Love
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Key Features of The Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Opinionated Introduction
Offers a contemporary, problems-based approach to the subject, helping students and others better understand and address current issues and controversial questions
Includes coverage of sex and love as they intersect with topics like disability, race, medicine, and economics
Considers not only the ethical, but also the broadly social and political dimensions of sex and love
Includes a helpful introduction and conclusion in each chapter and is written throughout in a clear and straightforward style, with examples and sign-posts to help guide the student and general reader
A comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography provides a valuable tool for anyone’s further research
Patricia Marino is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where, in addition to philosophy of sex and love, she works in ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of economics. She served as co-President of The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love from 2008 to 2018, and is the author of Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World (2015).
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Sex, relationships, and respect: the problem of objectification
Introduction
1. Sex as inherently objectifying: the view of Immanuel Kant
2. Feminist theories of objectification
3. Nussbaum on the varying aspects of objectification
4. Challenges for Nussbaum's theory
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Objectification, autonomy, and pornography
Introduction
1. Objectification and social autonomy
2. Social autonomy and adaptive preferences
3. A social perspective on pornography
4. The "pornutopia" and pornography's falsity
5. Beyond the heterosexual context
Chapter 3: Consent and rape law
Introduction
1. A short history of the law of consent
2. "'No' means no"
3. Communicative sexuality and non-verbal consent
4. The Antioch Policy and verbal consent
5. Affirmative consent, sexual autonomy, and the law
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Sex work: commodification and capitalism
Introduction
1. Sex work and the law
2. Sex work as a free contractual exchange
3. Sex work, commodification, and the specialness of sex
4. Commercialized sex in context
5. Sexual surrogacy
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Theories of love: the union view
Introduction
1. Why a theory of love?
2. The union theory and its difficulties
3. The relationship of self and "we"
4. The "we" as a merger of ends and desires
5. Love and irrationality
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Another theory of love: love as caring concern
Introduction
1. Love as caring concern
2. Disinterestedness and reciprocity
3. Love and autonomy in the union and concern theories
4. Love, autonomy, and deference
5. Love and rationality revisited: appraisal and bestowal
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Love, Fairness, and Equality
Introduction
1. Union theories and balancing
2. Concern theories and deliberation
3. Equality and fairness
4. Why a theory of love, revisited
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Orientations of sex and love
Introduction
1. Concepts, terminology, and history
2. The "born that way" and "not a choice" arguments: conceptual complexities
3. The "born that way" and "not a choice" arguments: ethical and political complexities
4. Orientations and values of sex and love
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Love and marriage
Introduction
1. The nature of marriage
2. Is marriage a promise?
3. Gender and the institution of marriage
4. Is marriage bad for love?
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Sex, love, and race
Introduction
1. Race in cultural context
2. Some Problems with racialized preferences
3. Further evaluation: causes and consequences of racialized preferences
4. Marriage and racial solidarity
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Sex, love, and disability
Introduction
1. Disability in context
2. Physical disabilities and sexual surrogacy
3. Surrogacy, intimacy, and love
4. Intellectual disabilities and complexities of consent
Conclusion
Chapter 12: The medicalization of sex and love
Introduction
1. Medicalization and the "Viagra narrative"
2. The social control of women's sexuality
3. Recent scientific study of women's sexuality
4. Non-concordance and the interpretation of desire
5. Lack of desire and eagerness versus enjoying
6. Medicalization of love?
Conclusion
Chapter 13: Economics of sex and love
Introduction
1. Economics and love: what is the problem?
2. Altruism and the possibility of "self-interested" love
3. Economics and sex
4. Sex, love, and economic methodology
Conclusion
Chapter 14. Ethical non-monogamy
Introduction
1. What is ethical non-monogamy?
2. The values of ethical non-monogamy
3. The "paradox of prevalence and changing the law
4. Challenges for ethical non-monogamy.
Conclusion
Conclusion
References
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.1.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-65696-8 / 1138656968 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-65696-3 / 9781138656963 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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