Invented Moralities

Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty

Jeffrey Weeks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1995
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1369-7 (ISBN)

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aeo An important intervention in the public debate now going on about the family and sexual life. aeo The author is probably the most distinguished British writer on the theme of sexuality. aeo The book develops, but also criticises, themes discussed by Michel Foucault in his celebrated analysis of sexuality.

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).

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.9.1995
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	100 x 250 mm
Gewicht	312 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7456-1369-1 / 0745613691
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1369-7 / 9780745613697
Zustand	Neuware