Sexual Justice

Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-90515-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Sexual Justice defends a robust a robust conception of lesbian and gay rights, emphasizing protection against discrimination and recognition of queer relationships and families. Synthesizing materials from law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, Kaplan argues that sexual desire is central to the pursuit of happiness: equal citizenship requires individual freedom to shape oneself through a variety of intimate associations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaplan, Morris B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

introduction Democracy, Difference, and Desire; Part 1 Principles; Chapter 1 Theorizing Lesbian and Gay Rights; Chapter 2 Historicizing Sexuality; Part 2 Psyches; Chapter 3 Eros Unbound; Chapter 4 Psychoanalyzing the “Third Sex”; Part 3 Politics; Chapter 5 Refiguring the Jewish Question; Chapter 6 Queer Citizenship, Don Gifford; Chapter 7 Intimacy and Equality, Ed Stein;

Über Autor(innen)

Morris B. Kaplan teaches philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. He has served as a trial attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York and as inaugural Rockefeller Fellow in Legal Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center, 1993-94. He has published in Praxis International, Virginia Law Review, GLQ, The Philosophical Forum, Metaphilosophy, and The Journal of the History of Sexuality.