Mary Lyndon Shanley
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294962
- eISBN:
- 9780191598708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294964.003.0019
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
US law concerning families has not tipped as unequivocally in the direction of unbridled individualism as Sandel believes, and, in any event, individualism and moral values are not diametrically ...
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US law concerning families has not tipped as unequivocally in the direction of unbridled individualism as Sandel believes, and, in any event, individualism and moral values are not diametrically opposed to one another. Because law shapes the way we conceptualize human relationships, we should make sure that “the tale told by law” reflects an understanding of the importance of communal interdependence to both individuals and society, rather than simply reflecting justice understood as the protection of individual rights. In promising wives long-term support in the event of divorce, the old marriage law provided some compensation to wives for their economic vulnerability, but it promoted an inequality in both the family and the larger society; the challenge for family law and family policy is to design measures that will allow deep affection ties to flourish while not locking some people–primarily women–into dependency. In Sandel’s eyes, the dissenters in Bowers v. Hardwick missed an opportunity to articulate the possible goods to be realized by homosexual intimacy, and in doing so impoverished political discourse, but throughout his opinion, Blackmun attempts to relate the importance to an individual of being a member of a family or an intimate association and the ability to choose to establish or enter such a relationship. The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 regards neither Indian infants nor their biological parents as unencumbered individuals, but rather suggests that they are embedded in a web of relationships they have not chosen, yet which in part constitute who they are and which justify particular legal stipulations regarding jurisdiction and placement in foster care and adoption cases; it also recognizes individual rights through provisions that allow for consideration of the wishes of the biological parents and of the best interests of a particular child.Less
US law concerning families has not tipped as unequivocally in the direction of unbridled individualism as Sandel believes, and, in any event, individualism and moral values are not diametrically opposed to one another. Because law shapes the way we conceptualize human relationships, we should make sure that “the tale told by law” reflects an understanding of the importance of communal interdependence to both individuals and society, rather than simply reflecting justice understood as the protection of individual rights. In promising wives long-term support in the event of divorce, the old marriage law provided some compensation to wives for their economic vulnerability, but it promoted an inequality in both the family and the larger society; the challenge for family law and family policy is to design measures that will allow deep affection ties to flourish while not locking some people–primarily women–into dependency. In Sandel’s eyes, the dissenters in Bowers v. Hardwick missed an opportunity to articulate the possible goods to be realized by homosexual intimacy, and in doing so impoverished political discourse, but throughout his opinion, Blackmun attempts to relate the importance to an individual of being a member of a family or an intimate association and the ability to choose to establish or enter such a relationship. The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 regards neither Indian infants nor their biological parents as unencumbered individuals, but rather suggests that they are embedded in a web of relationships they have not chosen, yet which in part constitute who they are and which justify particular legal stipulations regarding jurisdiction and placement in foster care and adoption cases; it also recognizes individual rights through provisions that allow for consideration of the wishes of the biological parents and of the best interests of a particular child.
Sonja Tiernan
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781526145994
- eISBN:
- 9781526152145
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526146007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
Ireland was the first country to extend marriage to same-sex couples through a public vote. This book records the political campaign and strategy that led to this momentous event in 2015, from the ...
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Ireland was the first country to extend marriage to same-sex couples through a public vote. This book records the political campaign and strategy that led to this momentous event in 2015, from the origins of a gay rights movement in a repressive Ireland through to the establishment of the Yes Equality campaign. The story traces how, for perhaps the first time in the history of the Irish State, the country shed its conservative Catholic image. Ultimately, this is the account of how a new wave of activism was successfully introduced in Ireland which led to a social revolution that is being fully realised in 2019 and beyond through subsequent campaigns, activism and further referenda. The marriage equality movement is best explored through the stories of the main campaigners, including those already well known in the Irish movement, such as David Norris, Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan, as well as individuals who inspired the founding of vibrant new groups such as NOISE and Marriage Equality, or reactivated established groups such as GLEN. This social revolution is detailed through accounts of how political lobbying was used and court cases launched that brought about necessary legal and political change which now showcases Ireland as a progressive country continually working towards achieving full equality.Less
Ireland was the first country to extend marriage to same-sex couples through a public vote. This book records the political campaign and strategy that led to this momentous event in 2015, from the origins of a gay rights movement in a repressive Ireland through to the establishment of the Yes Equality campaign. The story traces how, for perhaps the first time in the history of the Irish State, the country shed its conservative Catholic image. Ultimately, this is the account of how a new wave of activism was successfully introduced in Ireland which led to a social revolution that is being fully realised in 2019 and beyond through subsequent campaigns, activism and further referenda. The marriage equality movement is best explored through the stories of the main campaigners, including those already well known in the Irish movement, such as David Norris, Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan, as well as individuals who inspired the founding of vibrant new groups such as NOISE and Marriage Equality, or reactivated established groups such as GLEN. This social revolution is detailed through accounts of how political lobbying was used and court cases launched that brought about necessary legal and political change which now showcases Ireland as a progressive country continually working towards achieving full equality.
Heather R. White
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624112
- eISBN:
- 9781469624792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624112.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter examines three overlapping endeavors authored and organized by homosexuals during the postwar years. Each of these efforts shows how the project of articulating a homosexual identity ...
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This chapter examines three overlapping endeavors authored and organized by homosexuals during the postwar years. Each of these efforts shows how the project of articulating a homosexual identity contended with twinned narratives of condemnation and self-actualization found in the Protestant therapeutic orthodoxy. The “homophile movement,” the most well-known of the three efforts, is the main focus of this chapter. The authors of this type of literature took up the dominant therapeutic paradigm to turn that quest for authenticity into a project of homosexual self-acceptance. They contended with the intertwined doctrines of sin and sickness from within it, as its homosexual subjects. This collective carved out a social space that recognized and valorized same-sex attraction. The chapter also investigates how Protestantism provided practices of homosocial kinship and a set of narratives and beliefs that gave language to a homosexual identity.Less
This chapter examines three overlapping endeavors authored and organized by homosexuals during the postwar years. Each of these efforts shows how the project of articulating a homosexual identity contended with twinned narratives of condemnation and self-actualization found in the Protestant therapeutic orthodoxy. The “homophile movement,” the most well-known of the three efforts, is the main focus of this chapter. The authors of this type of literature took up the dominant therapeutic paradigm to turn that quest for authenticity into a project of homosexual self-acceptance. They contended with the intertwined doctrines of sin and sickness from within it, as its homosexual subjects. This collective carved out a social space that recognized and valorized same-sex attraction. The chapter also investigates how Protestantism provided practices of homosocial kinship and a set of narratives and beliefs that gave language to a homosexual identity.
Jerome Murphy‐O'connor
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199564156
- eISBN:
- 9780191721281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199564156.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter argues that 1 Cor 11: 2–16 has nothing to do with the veiling of women. The man is criticized for letting his hair grow long, because it was the overt sign of the active male homosexual. ...
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This chapter argues that 1 Cor 11: 2–16 has nothing to do with the veiling of women. The man is criticized for letting his hair grow long, because it was the overt sign of the active male homosexual. The woman, on the contrary, is blamed simply for not dressing her hair in the conventional manner. If she will not be feminine, she might as well go the whole way and appear ‘manish’ by cutting off her hair. Lesbians were known by their short hair. The point of Paul's argument from creation in Gen 2 is that, if God intended no difference between male and female, he would have created them in the same way. The difference between the sexes, in consequence, is important. Since Jews deduced the inferiority of women from Gan 2, Paul affirms their full equality by pointing out that the chronological primacy of man in creation is negated for contemporary man by the simple fact that he has a mother.Less
This chapter argues that 1 Cor 11: 2–16 has nothing to do with the veiling of women. The man is criticized for letting his hair grow long, because it was the overt sign of the active male homosexual. The woman, on the contrary, is blamed simply for not dressing her hair in the conventional manner. If she will not be feminine, she might as well go the whole way and appear ‘manish’ by cutting off her hair. Lesbians were known by their short hair. The point of Paul's argument from creation in Gen 2 is that, if God intended no difference between male and female, he would have created them in the same way. The difference between the sexes, in consequence, is important. Since Jews deduced the inferiority of women from Gan 2, Paul affirms their full equality by pointing out that the chronological primacy of man in creation is negated for contemporary man by the simple fact that he has a mother.
Sam Cherribi
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199734115
- eISBN:
- 9780199866113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734115.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter focuses on processes of stigmatization and mobilization, with three case studies, and the consequences of this for identity politics. The shift from an emphasis on a particular immigrant ...
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This chapter focuses on processes of stigmatization and mobilization, with three case studies, and the consequences of this for identity politics. The shift from an emphasis on a particular immigrant group, the Moroccan minority, to Islam as a religion and its followers came about well before 9/11 in the the Netherlands. A case study explores the causes and consequences of the conflict that erupted between imams and homosexuals in May 2001. This provided fertile territory for the development of public support for Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch populist who emerged as a successful local politician in Rotterdam in November 2001 and an even more successful national politician in spring 2002.Less
This chapter focuses on processes of stigmatization and mobilization, with three case studies, and the consequences of this for identity politics. The shift from an emphasis on a particular immigrant group, the Moroccan minority, to Islam as a religion and its followers came about well before 9/11 in the the Netherlands. A case study explores the causes and consequences of the conflict that erupted between imams and homosexuals in May 2001. This provided fertile territory for the development of public support for Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch populist who emerged as a successful local politician in Rotterdam in November 2001 and an even more successful national politician in spring 2002.
Heather R. White
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624112
- eISBN:
- 9781469624792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624112.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter reveals how liberal Protestants in San Francisco became influential allies and advocates of the emerging homosexual identity movement by examining the Council on Religion and the ...
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This chapter reveals how liberal Protestants in San Francisco became influential allies and advocates of the emerging homosexual identity movement by examining the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH). The CRH was a discussion group that facilitated dialogue between local clergy and members of homophile organizations. The organization became well-known in January 1965 when its members, who were also part of the clergy, blasted the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) for raiding a costume party organized by various homophile organizations. The retaliation provided a “cloak of the cloth” to the homophile cause. Ultimately, the CRH brought attention and redress to discriminatory police practices, helped jump-start broader grassroots support and cooperation, and inaugurated channels through which queer communities began exerting influence on the city government.Less
This chapter reveals how liberal Protestants in San Francisco became influential allies and advocates of the emerging homosexual identity movement by examining the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH). The CRH was a discussion group that facilitated dialogue between local clergy and members of homophile organizations. The organization became well-known in January 1965 when its members, who were also part of the clergy, blasted the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) for raiding a costume party organized by various homophile organizations. The retaliation provided a “cloak of the cloth” to the homophile cause. Ultimately, the CRH brought attention and redress to discriminatory police practices, helped jump-start broader grassroots support and cooperation, and inaugurated channels through which queer communities began exerting influence on the city government.
Keith Gandal
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195338911
- eISBN:
- 9780199867127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338911.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter turns to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and discusses its plot and characters in terms of the wartime meritocratic mobilization and the postwar development of Jewish quotas at ...
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This chapter turns to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and discusses its plot and characters in terms of the wartime meritocratic mobilization and the postwar development of Jewish quotas at universities and medical schools. Jake's famous genital war wound is elucidated as an emasculation due to being posted at a “joke front,” an emasculation that Hemingway suffered even more intensely because he was ineligible for armed service on physical grounds and ended up as a Red Cross ambulance driver at the same “joke front.” Meanwhile, Jewish Robert Cohn, Jake's rival for Brett, is explained in terms of his “military school” background (whose significance critics have missed) as well as his experience at Princeton University (which was a leader in terms of excluding the ethnic “other”). Hemingway, who has a problem with the military because of his own implicit rejection by it, sets up a contrast between Jewish Cohn, neurotic military schoolboy, and bullfighter Romero, the true warrior. Brett is discussed in terms of the figure of the charity girl.Less
This chapter turns to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and discusses its plot and characters in terms of the wartime meritocratic mobilization and the postwar development of Jewish quotas at universities and medical schools. Jake's famous genital war wound is elucidated as an emasculation due to being posted at a “joke front,” an emasculation that Hemingway suffered even more intensely because he was ineligible for armed service on physical grounds and ended up as a Red Cross ambulance driver at the same “joke front.” Meanwhile, Jewish Robert Cohn, Jake's rival for Brett, is explained in terms of his “military school” background (whose significance critics have missed) as well as his experience at Princeton University (which was a leader in terms of excluding the ethnic “other”). Hemingway, who has a problem with the military because of his own implicit rejection by it, sets up a contrast between Jewish Cohn, neurotic military schoolboy, and bullfighter Romero, the true warrior. Brett is discussed in terms of the figure of the charity girl.
Keith Gandal
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195338911
- eISBN:
- 9780199867127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338911.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter takes up Faulkner's famous novel The Sound and the Fury. Again missing a crucial connection to the mobilization, critics have failed to understand Benjy as having been shaped by the ...
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This chapter takes up Faulkner's famous novel The Sound and the Fury. Again missing a crucial connection to the mobilization, critics have failed to understand Benjy as having been shaped by the extraordinary attention given to the problem of the feebleminded during the war: the army's intelligence testing was initially instituted to eliminate “mental defectives.” Although Fitzgerald and Hemingway's novels focus on ethnic Americans who have experienced nondiscriminatory opportunity (as well as subsequent backlash), Sound switches the focus to Anglos who don't qualify or are losing the competition in the context of a rising meritocracy. (Faulkner was one such real-life Anglo who was rejected by the army.) Idiot Anglo Benjy is the opposite of talented ethnic Gatsby. The chapter also discusses the love triangle among promiscuous Caddy, her lover Dalton Ames (a returning soldier), and her brother Quentin (a romantic, emasculated Anglo figure who is awed by Ames). The chapter finishes with a discussion of the novel's portrayal of African Americans, Jewish Americans, and Italian Americans, and discusses the portrayal of the last group in terms of the postwar exploitation of the intelligence test results by immigration restrictionists.Less
This chapter takes up Faulkner's famous novel The Sound and the Fury. Again missing a crucial connection to the mobilization, critics have failed to understand Benjy as having been shaped by the extraordinary attention given to the problem of the feebleminded during the war: the army's intelligence testing was initially instituted to eliminate “mental defectives.” Although Fitzgerald and Hemingway's novels focus on ethnic Americans who have experienced nondiscriminatory opportunity (as well as subsequent backlash), Sound switches the focus to Anglos who don't qualify or are losing the competition in the context of a rising meritocracy. (Faulkner was one such real-life Anglo who was rejected by the army.) Idiot Anglo Benjy is the opposite of talented ethnic Gatsby. The chapter also discusses the love triangle among promiscuous Caddy, her lover Dalton Ames (a returning soldier), and her brother Quentin (a romantic, emasculated Anglo figure who is awed by Ames). The chapter finishes with a discussion of the novel's portrayal of African Americans, Jewish Americans, and Italian Americans, and discusses the portrayal of the last group in terms of the postwar exploitation of the intelligence test results by immigration restrictionists.
Keith Gandal
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195338911
- eISBN:
- 9780199867127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195338911.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory, American, 20th Century Literature
By the 1930s, the postmobilization tale of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hemingway (the racist promiscuity plot) was already being subverted, while still being utilized. In Tropic of Cancer by Henry ...
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By the 1930s, the postmobilization tale of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hemingway (the racist promiscuity plot) was already being subverted, while still being utilized. In Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, there is still a central promiscuous Anglo woman; there are love relationships with ethnic Americans, and often with Jews; there are obsessed romantics; there are sometimes mentally deficient characters, and there are lovers who have special relationships with a promiscuous woman. But now the ethnic character is not scapegoated; the masculine soldierly ideal comes under attack; the figure of the charity girl is parodied, and the military is openly criticized, its concern over venereal disease mocked. The postmobilization novels of the thirties are no longer haunted by sexual liaisons between military figures and women — as were the twenties novels, as well as the 1917-1918 military authorities; rather, the figures of the prostitute and the charity girl are now fetishized, not romanticized or problematized.Less
By the 1930s, the postmobilization tale of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hemingway (the racist promiscuity plot) was already being subverted, while still being utilized. In Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, there is still a central promiscuous Anglo woman; there are love relationships with ethnic Americans, and often with Jews; there are obsessed romantics; there are sometimes mentally deficient characters, and there are lovers who have special relationships with a promiscuous woman. But now the ethnic character is not scapegoated; the masculine soldierly ideal comes under attack; the figure of the charity girl is parodied, and the military is openly criticized, its concern over venereal disease mocked. The postmobilization novels of the thirties are no longer haunted by sexual liaisons between military figures and women — as were the twenties novels, as well as the 1917-1918 military authorities; rather, the figures of the prostitute and the charity girl are now fetishized, not romanticized or problematized.
Lamin Sanneh
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195177282
- eISBN:
- 9780199835812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195177282.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Beginning with a brief look at the controversy in the worldwide Anglican communion over the northern churches’ attempts to normalize homosexual relationships, editor Sanneh insists that this conflict ...
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Beginning with a brief look at the controversy in the worldwide Anglican communion over the northern churches’ attempts to normalize homosexual relationships, editor Sanneh insists that this conflict is evidence of a serious cultural gap between the northern churches and those of the global south and east. Northern forms of Christianity are trying to regain a hearing by becoming deeply accommodated to the demands of post-Christian culture, while after decades of hardship and persecution (e.g., in Ethiopia under the Dirge, a Marxist regime), non-western Christianity is emerging more vigorous and self-confident than ever. A fault line on a global scale is emerging, but because of massive emigration, world Christianity is present everywhere. Non-western or world Christianity has grown up amid the failure of nation-states and economies and has learned to carry much civic freight. It is better equipped than the northern churches to function in a new world order where state jurisdiction is less relevant. These new expressions of Christianity are opening up a new chapter in the history of religion.Less
Beginning with a brief look at the controversy in the worldwide Anglican communion over the northern churches’ attempts to normalize homosexual relationships, editor Sanneh insists that this conflict is evidence of a serious cultural gap between the northern churches and those of the global south and east. Northern forms of Christianity are trying to regain a hearing by becoming deeply accommodated to the demands of post-Christian culture, while after decades of hardship and persecution (e.g., in Ethiopia under the Dirge, a Marxist regime), non-western Christianity is emerging more vigorous and self-confident than ever. A fault line on a global scale is emerging, but because of massive emigration, world Christianity is present everywhere. Non-western or world Christianity has grown up amid the failure of nation-states and economies and has learned to carry much civic freight. It is better equipped than the northern churches to function in a new world order where state jurisdiction is less relevant. These new expressions of Christianity are opening up a new chapter in the history of religion.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195146998
- eISBN:
- 9780199787890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195146998.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, American Colonial Literature
This chapter considers two novels by the Filipino American authors Jessica Hagedorn and Ninotchka Rosca. Hagedorn's Dogeaters and Rosca's State of War focus upon anti-dictatorial revolutions in the ...
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This chapter considers two novels by the Filipino American authors Jessica Hagedorn and Ninotchka Rosca. Hagedorn's Dogeaters and Rosca's State of War focus upon anti-dictatorial revolutions in the Philippines, placing transvestites and homosexuals in central roles. The queer body arises in the work of these writers because it allows them to address two related historical situations: the relationship of the Philippines to the United States, and the relationship of the dominated to the dominating in the Philippines. In these situations, the queer subject's status as social outsider becomes metaphorical for the Philippines as the forgotten nation in American memory, and metaphorical for the dominated within the Philippines itself. These novels, by putting the queer body at the center of the anti-dictatorial movement, transform that movement into a sexual revolution that displaces the importance of heterosexual identity and marriage found in many constructions of nationalist revolution.Less
This chapter considers two novels by the Filipino American authors Jessica Hagedorn and Ninotchka Rosca. Hagedorn's Dogeaters and Rosca's State of War focus upon anti-dictatorial revolutions in the Philippines, placing transvestites and homosexuals in central roles. The queer body arises in the work of these writers because it allows them to address two related historical situations: the relationship of the Philippines to the United States, and the relationship of the dominated to the dominating in the Philippines. In these situations, the queer subject's status as social outsider becomes metaphorical for the Philippines as the forgotten nation in American memory, and metaphorical for the dominated within the Philippines itself. These novels, by putting the queer body at the center of the anti-dictatorial movement, transform that movement into a sexual revolution that displaces the importance of heterosexual identity and marriage found in many constructions of nationalist revolution.
Jonathan Burnside
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199759217
- eISBN:
- 9780199827084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199759217.003.0011
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
This chapter focuses on Leviticus 20, which considers a range of sexual behaviors, including rape, adultery, incest, homosexual sex, and bestiality. It argues that biblical law does not have a ...
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This chapter focuses on Leviticus 20, which considers a range of sexual behaviors, including rape, adultery, incest, homosexual sex, and bestiality. It argues that biblical law does not have a category of sexual offences as such: instead prohibited sexual relationships are understood in terms of pre-existing categories of idolatry and dishonoring parents, as well as adultery. In this way, Leviticus 20 echoes the sequence of taboos found in the Decalogue. Adultery and forms of adultery are presented schematically in biblical law as a series of binary oppositions to the norm of marriage. As a result, biblical sexual ethics is structured around a clear understanding of harm and family. Comparison with an analysis of recent sexual offences reform in England and Wales suggests that biblical law actually defines questions of consent, equality and protection, in relation to sexual behavior, differently and more broadly than modern law.Less
This chapter focuses on Leviticus 20, which considers a range of sexual behaviors, including rape, adultery, incest, homosexual sex, and bestiality. It argues that biblical law does not have a category of sexual offences as such: instead prohibited sexual relationships are understood in terms of pre-existing categories of idolatry and dishonoring parents, as well as adultery. In this way, Leviticus 20 echoes the sequence of taboos found in the Decalogue. Adultery and forms of adultery are presented schematically in biblical law as a series of binary oppositions to the norm of marriage. As a result, biblical sexual ethics is structured around a clear understanding of harm and family. Comparison with an analysis of recent sexual offences reform in England and Wales suggests that biblical law actually defines questions of consent, equality and protection, in relation to sexual behavior, differently and more broadly than modern law.
Steven P. Kurtz
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195326789
- eISBN:
- 9780199870356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326789.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter describes how gay men attempt to locate themselves in an environment in which change, spectacle, and the search for altered states of being are the main constants. It draws on extensive ...
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This chapter describes how gay men attempt to locate themselves in an environment in which change, spectacle, and the search for altered states of being are the main constants. It draws on extensive qualitative data collected over a decade to trace patterns in the narratives that gay men use to describe their experiences as they absorb and sometimes separate from the sex-drug pleasure dome that Miami is often seen to represent. The chapter presents the story of how men from diverse backgrounds integrate the sense of themselves as developed throughout childhood and adolescence (“Kansas”) into this urban space that for most of them feels like “Oz”.Less
This chapter describes how gay men attempt to locate themselves in an environment in which change, spectacle, and the search for altered states of being are the main constants. It draws on extensive qualitative data collected over a decade to trace patterns in the narratives that gay men use to describe their experiences as they absorb and sometimes separate from the sex-drug pleasure dome that Miami is often seen to represent. The chapter presents the story of how men from diverse backgrounds integrate the sense of themselves as developed throughout childhood and adolescence (“Kansas”) into this urban space that for most of them feels like “Oz”.
Nadine Hubbs
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520241848
- eISBN:
- 9780520937956
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520241848.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the individual and collective achievements of U.S. gay modernist composers. It suggests that though the meanings of ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the individual and collective achievements of U.S. gay modernist composers. It suggests that though the meanings of classical music, of homosexual identity, and of Americanness have changed substantially since the zenith of U.S. tonal modernism, the history of the gay Americana composers and their work has much to tell us about ourselves today. It concludes that the history of homosexuality is potentially nothing less than a history of human subjectivity, that is, of “the social construction of the self”.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the individual and collective achievements of U.S. gay modernist composers. It suggests that though the meanings of classical music, of homosexual identity, and of Americanness have changed substantially since the zenith of U.S. tonal modernism, the history of the gay Americana composers and their work has much to tell us about ourselves today. It concludes that the history of homosexuality is potentially nothing less than a history of human subjectivity, that is, of “the social construction of the self”.
Heather Rachelle White
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624112
- eISBN:
- 9781469624792
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624112.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, this book challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious ...
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With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, this book challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious and sexual past. The book argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching. A new therapeutic orthodoxy, influenced by modern medicine, celebrated heterosexuality as God-given and advocated a compassionate “cure” for homosexuality. The book traces the unanticipated consequences as the therapeutic model, gaining popularity after World War II, spurred mainline church leaders to take a critical stance toward rampant anti-homosexual discrimination. By the 1960s, a vanguard of clergy began to advocate for homosexual rights. The text highlights the continued importance of this religious support to the consolidating gay and lesbian movement. However, the ultimate irony of the therapeutic orthodoxy's legacy was its adoption, beginning in the 1970s, by the Christian Right, which embraced it as an age-old tradition to which Americans should return. On a broader level, the text challenges the assumed secularization narrative in LGBT progress by recovering the forgotten history of liberal Protestants' role on both sides of the debates over orthodoxy and sexual identity.Less
With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, this book challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious and sexual past. The book argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching. A new therapeutic orthodoxy, influenced by modern medicine, celebrated heterosexuality as God-given and advocated a compassionate “cure” for homosexuality. The book traces the unanticipated consequences as the therapeutic model, gaining popularity after World War II, spurred mainline church leaders to take a critical stance toward rampant anti-homosexual discrimination. By the 1960s, a vanguard of clergy began to advocate for homosexual rights. The text highlights the continued importance of this religious support to the consolidating gay and lesbian movement. However, the ultimate irony of the therapeutic orthodoxy's legacy was its adoption, beginning in the 1970s, by the Christian Right, which embraced it as an age-old tradition to which Americans should return. On a broader level, the text challenges the assumed secularization narrative in LGBT progress by recovering the forgotten history of liberal Protestants' role on both sides of the debates over orthodoxy and sexual identity.
Mary M. Read
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195326789
- eISBN:
- 9780199870356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326789.003.0015
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter uses narrative identity theory to describe and facilitate an understanding of issues regarding the formation of a positive lesbian identity among a particular cohort of women: midlife ...
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This chapter uses narrative identity theory to describe and facilitate an understanding of issues regarding the formation of a positive lesbian identity among a particular cohort of women: midlife North American lesbian women who were born between approximately 1940 and 1965. The life experiences and recollections of North American lesbians of the baby boom cohort reflect the integration of multiple aspects of the self, continually emerging and re-forming across diverse settings. The goal of the chapter is to display the narrative identity processes midlife lesbians—who experience at least three forms of diminished privilege in North American society (being women, older, and of stigmatized sexual orientation)—have used to create lives of meaning and fulfillment. These issues are explored through the lens of a conceptual model created by analyzing narrative data gathered from life story portions that were available in existing literature.Less
This chapter uses narrative identity theory to describe and facilitate an understanding of issues regarding the formation of a positive lesbian identity among a particular cohort of women: midlife North American lesbian women who were born between approximately 1940 and 1965. The life experiences and recollections of North American lesbians of the baby boom cohort reflect the integration of multiple aspects of the self, continually emerging and re-forming across diverse settings. The goal of the chapter is to display the narrative identity processes midlife lesbians—who experience at least three forms of diminished privilege in North American society (being women, older, and of stigmatized sexual orientation)—have used to create lives of meaning and fulfillment. These issues are explored through the lens of a conceptual model created by analyzing narrative data gathered from life story portions that were available in existing literature.
Hammond Paul
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198186922
- eISBN:
- 9780191674617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186922.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of the purpose of the book, which is to explore in more detail the literary representation of love and sex between men in the 17th century. ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of the purpose of the book, which is to explore in more detail the literary representation of love and sex between men in the 17th century. The book foregrounds the very fragmentary and elusive character of 17th-century writing about sex between men, attending to the essential problems of figuring sex and figuring out what representations mean. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of the purpose of the book, which is to explore in more detail the literary representation of love and sex between men in the 17th century. The book foregrounds the very fragmentary and elusive character of 17th-century writing about sex between men, attending to the essential problems of figuring sex and figuring out what representations mean. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.
Hammond Paul
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198186922
- eISBN:
- 9780191674617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186922.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters. This book looked closely at the detail of literary texts, at the implications of specific images, semantic fields, and literary ...
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This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters. This book looked closely at the detail of literary texts, at the implications of specific images, semantic fields, and literary allusions of sex between men in the 17th century. Men who desire other men are linked with shepherds from classical, pastoral, or with various mythological figures — Adonis, Apollo, Ganymede, Narcissus — each of whom exemplifies a subtly different kind of desire or role. Definition and indefinition map out the potential spaces for homosexual desire, and for its punishment. There is no unitary discourse either of homoeroticism or of sodomy in this period. Instead, there are a series of discontinuous micro-discourses which formed around particular texts or historical individuals.Less
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters. This book looked closely at the detail of literary texts, at the implications of specific images, semantic fields, and literary allusions of sex between men in the 17th century. Men who desire other men are linked with shepherds from classical, pastoral, or with various mythological figures — Adonis, Apollo, Ganymede, Narcissus — each of whom exemplifies a subtly different kind of desire or role. Definition and indefinition map out the potential spaces for homosexual desire, and for its punishment. There is no unitary discourse either of homoeroticism or of sodomy in this period. Instead, there are a series of discontinuous micro-discourses which formed around particular texts or historical individuals.
Ann Jefferson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199270842
- eISBN:
- 9780191710292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270842.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
Against the grain of the many autobiographically based readings of Genet, this chapter presents his prose writing (esp. Miracle de la rose, Notre-Dame-des Fleurs, Journal du voleur) as a series of ...
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Against the grain of the many autobiographically based readings of Genet, this chapter presents his prose writing (esp. Miracle de la rose, Notre-Dame-des Fleurs, Journal du voleur) as a series of biographical celebrations of his unlikely subjects. Genet adopts the anachronistic mode of courtly literature in order to transform his largely abject figures into glorious heroes by means of a self-consciously extravagant poetic language. The result highlights the gap between the biographical subjects portrayed and the literary medium, thus foregrounding the creative intervention of the writer. This flaunting of literariness is used by Genet as a means of disengaging his own literary project from any social or conventional consensus about literature. This is further supported by the frequent equation of homosexual love with artistic creation in his work, and is finally endorsed in his critical writings about artists such as Rembrandt and Giacometti whose skills are defined as being ultimately those of biographical portraiture.Less
Against the grain of the many autobiographically based readings of Genet, this chapter presents his prose writing (esp. Miracle de la rose, Notre-Dame-des Fleurs, Journal du voleur) as a series of biographical celebrations of his unlikely subjects. Genet adopts the anachronistic mode of courtly literature in order to transform his largely abject figures into glorious heroes by means of a self-consciously extravagant poetic language. The result highlights the gap between the biographical subjects portrayed and the literary medium, thus foregrounding the creative intervention of the writer. This flaunting of literariness is used by Genet as a means of disengaging his own literary project from any social or conventional consensus about literature. This is further supported by the frequent equation of homosexual love with artistic creation in his work, and is finally endorsed in his critical writings about artists such as Rembrandt and Giacometti whose skills are defined as being ultimately those of biographical portraiture.
Heather R. White
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624112
- eISBN:
- 9781469624792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624112.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter explores the mid-century invention of the liberal Protestant “therapeutic orthodoxy” and the flourishing of its intertwined outcomes: a newly prohibited biblical category of “homosexual ...
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This chapter explores the mid-century invention of the liberal Protestant “therapeutic orthodoxy” and the flourishing of its intertwined outcomes: a newly prohibited biblical category of “homosexual acts” and a practice of faith-based counseling that offered a nonjudgmental method for achieving healthy sexuality. Theological modernism served as the broker for this meeting of spirituality and science. Modernism as a theological outlook propelled a capacious quest for truth from ostensibly secular sources. It gravitated toward a notion of God's immanent presence in human culture: God, as sovereign creator, could be illuminated through even the naturalistic inquiries of the so-called secular sciences. Theological modernism, oriented toward the new as a source of revelation and reformation, positioned liberal Protestants as early adopters of the therapeutic paradigm.Less
This chapter explores the mid-century invention of the liberal Protestant “therapeutic orthodoxy” and the flourishing of its intertwined outcomes: a newly prohibited biblical category of “homosexual acts” and a practice of faith-based counseling that offered a nonjudgmental method for achieving healthy sexuality. Theological modernism served as the broker for this meeting of spirituality and science. Modernism as a theological outlook propelled a capacious quest for truth from ostensibly secular sources. It gravitated toward a notion of God's immanent presence in human culture: God, as sovereign creator, could be illuminated through even the naturalistic inquiries of the so-called secular sciences. Theological modernism, oriented toward the new as a source of revelation and reformation, positioned liberal Protestants as early adopters of the therapeutic paradigm.
