Weeks Invented Moralities

Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6906-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weeks, Jeffrey

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Values, Whose Values?.
1. Living with Uncertainty.
2. Inventing Moralities.
3. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politicsof Diversity.
4. The Sphere of the Intimate, and the Values of EverydayLife.
5. Caught Between Worlds and Ways of Being.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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).