Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691149820
- eISBN:
- 9781400839773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691149820.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This chapter discusses some of the dramatic changes in the law relating to sexual behavior since the middle of the twentieth century. The ultimate cause, of course, was changing sexual mores. But at ...
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This chapter discusses some of the dramatic changes in the law relating to sexual behavior since the middle of the twentieth century. The ultimate cause, of course, was changing sexual mores. But at several points, the Supreme Court, by recognizing a constitutional right to privacy, acted in ways that gave these changing mores a solid foundation in law. This right of privacy was expanded over time to include contraception, abortion, and even same-sex behavior. Through these cases, the Court authorized marriage without sex (by prisoners, for example) and sex without marriage (between gay people, who were forbidden to marry). It also authorized marital sex without reproduction (through contraception and abortion) and reproduction without marriage (through rights of illegitimate children and unwed fathers).Less
This chapter discusses some of the dramatic changes in the law relating to sexual behavior since the middle of the twentieth century. The ultimate cause, of course, was changing sexual mores. But at several points, the Supreme Court, by recognizing a constitutional right to privacy, acted in ways that gave these changing mores a solid foundation in law. This right of privacy was expanded over time to include contraception, abortion, and even same-sex behavior. Through these cases, the Court authorized marriage without sex (by prisoners, for example) and sex without marriage (between gay people, who were forbidden to marry). It also authorized marital sex without reproduction (through contraception and abortion) and reproduction without marriage (through rights of illegitimate children and unwed fathers).
Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691149820
- eISBN:
- 9781400839773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691149820.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This chapter looks at the rise of cohabitation, both as a prelude to marriage or as an outright substitute. This trend is one outcome of the sexual revolution, the new sexual freedom, referred to in ...
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This chapter looks at the rise of cohabitation, both as a prelude to marriage or as an outright substitute. This trend is one outcome of the sexual revolution, the new sexual freedom, referred to in the previous chapter. Here, courts and legislatures have had to grapple with a new social fact. Hence, this chapter considers how cohabitation has come to lose its criminal stigma; along with the growing ability of couples who live together to make claims against each other, or to demand some sort of family-like status. The trend, in short, has gone from legal and social disapproval to piecemeal civil protection. Legally speaking, cohabitation has become an accepted part of life, revealing new implications on marriage and on parentage.Less
This chapter looks at the rise of cohabitation, both as a prelude to marriage or as an outright substitute. This trend is one outcome of the sexual revolution, the new sexual freedom, referred to in the previous chapter. Here, courts and legislatures have had to grapple with a new social fact. Hence, this chapter considers how cohabitation has come to lose its criminal stigma; along with the growing ability of couples who live together to make claims against each other, or to demand some sort of family-like status. The trend, in short, has gone from legal and social disapproval to piecemeal civil protection. Legally speaking, cohabitation has become an accepted part of life, revealing new implications on marriage and on parentage.
Peter de Marneffe
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195383249
- eISBN:
- 9780199870554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383249.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
The paternalistic argument for prostitution laws does not presuppose that it is inherently wrong or immoral to exchange sex for money. Nor does it presuppose that prostitution laws could be justified ...
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The paternalistic argument for prostitution laws does not presuppose that it is inherently wrong or immoral to exchange sex for money. Nor does it presuppose that prostitution laws could be justified on this ground if it were true. Nor does this argument imply that the government is justified in limiting our sexual freedom in other ways. Prostitution laws justified on paternalistic grounds are therefore not objectionably moralistic. Although the paternalistic argument stated in chapter 1 presupposes that prostitution is “degrading,” and although John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin have argued that the fact that a form of sexual conduct is degrading cannot justify the government in prohibiting it, the paternalistic argument for prostitution laws is nonetheless compatible with liberal principles of liberty. It is misleading to characterize U.S. prostitution laws as “morals legislation” because in U.S. history, the paternalistic justification has been more influential than any purely moralistic one.Less
The paternalistic argument for prostitution laws does not presuppose that it is inherently wrong or immoral to exchange sex for money. Nor does it presuppose that prostitution laws could be justified on this ground if it were true. Nor does this argument imply that the government is justified in limiting our sexual freedom in other ways. Prostitution laws justified on paternalistic grounds are therefore not objectionably moralistic. Although the paternalistic argument stated in chapter 1 presupposes that prostitution is “degrading,” and although John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin have argued that the fact that a form of sexual conduct is degrading cannot justify the government in prohibiting it, the paternalistic argument for prostitution laws is nonetheless compatible with liberal principles of liberty. It is misleading to characterize U.S. prostitution laws as “morals legislation” because in U.S. history, the paternalistic justification has been more influential than any purely moralistic one.
Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691149820
- eISBN:
- 9781400839773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691149820.003.0008
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This chapter describes what might be the last battleground over “traditional” marriage—same-sex marriage, and the social and legal revolution that brought us from an era in which it was never ...
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This chapter describes what might be the last battleground over “traditional” marriage—same-sex marriage, and the social and legal revolution that brought us from an era in which it was never contemplated to one in which, depending on the state, it is either expressly authorized or expressly prohibited. Same-sex marriage has posed—and continues to pose—a challenge to traditional definitions of marriage and family. But, more importantly, the issue implies broader changes in family law—the increasing role of constitutional analysis; limits on the right of government to regulate the family; and the clash between the traditional family form and a new and wider menu of intimate and household arrangements, and all this against the background of the rise of a stronger form of individualism.Less
This chapter describes what might be the last battleground over “traditional” marriage—same-sex marriage, and the social and legal revolution that brought us from an era in which it was never contemplated to one in which, depending on the state, it is either expressly authorized or expressly prohibited. Same-sex marriage has posed—and continues to pose—a challenge to traditional definitions of marriage and family. But, more importantly, the issue implies broader changes in family law—the increasing role of constitutional analysis; limits on the right of government to regulate the family; and the clash between the traditional family form and a new and wider menu of intimate and household arrangements, and all this against the background of the rise of a stronger form of individualism.
Allyson M. Poska
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199265312
- eISBN:
- 9780191708763
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199265312.003.03
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter examines issues of female sexuality in Galician communities. Despite ecclesiastical prohibitions on non-marital sex, it is apparent that these women had considerable sexual freedom. They ...
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This chapter examines issues of female sexuality in Galician communities. Despite ecclesiastical prohibitions on non-marital sex, it is apparent that these women had considerable sexual freedom. They cohabited with male partners in temporary relationships and gave birth to large numbers of illegitimate children without any evidence of social stigma.Less
This chapter examines issues of female sexuality in Galician communities. Despite ecclesiastical prohibitions on non-marital sex, it is apparent that these women had considerable sexual freedom. They cohabited with male partners in temporary relationships and gave birth to large numbers of illegitimate children without any evidence of social stigma.
William J. Talbott
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195173482
- eISBN:
- 9780199872176
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173482.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter briefly reviews the evolution in decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court of what was originally identified as a privacy right but is now correctly identified as a liberty right against legal ...
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This chapter briefly reviews the evolution in decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court of what was originally identified as a privacy right but is now correctly identified as a liberty right against legal paternalism. The chapter uses the main principle to trace the contours of what this right should include: (1) right to religious freedom; (2) a right to sexual freedom; (3) a right to reproductive freedom; (4) a right to refuse medical treatment, including a right to refuse extraordinary care and to be removed from life support; (5) a right to marry that includes same sex marriage; (6) a right to suicide and assisted suicide in certain end-of-life situations. The chapter also explains why there should be human rights to spatial privacy and informational privacy.Less
This chapter briefly reviews the evolution in decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court of what was originally identified as a privacy right but is now correctly identified as a liberty right against legal paternalism. The chapter uses the main principle to trace the contours of what this right should include: (1) right to religious freedom; (2) a right to sexual freedom; (3) a right to reproductive freedom; (4) a right to refuse medical treatment, including a right to refuse extraordinary care and to be removed from life support; (5) a right to marry that includes same sex marriage; (6) a right to suicide and assisted suicide in certain end-of-life situations. The chapter also explains why there should be human rights to spatial privacy and informational privacy.
Amanda H. Littauer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469623788
- eISBN:
- 9781469625195
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469623788.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This book looks at mid-century American sex and culture. It traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. The book argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s ...
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This book looks at mid-century American sex and culture. It traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. The book argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier. From World War II-era “victory girls” to teen lesbians in the 1940s and 1950s, these nonconforming women and girls navigated and resisted intense social and interpersonal pressures to fit existing mores, using the upheavals of the era to pursue new sexual freedoms. Building on a new generation of research on postwar society, the text tells the history of diverse young women who stood at the center of major cultural change and helped transform a society bound by conservative sexual morality into one more open to individualism, plurality, and pleasure in modern sexual life.Less
This book looks at mid-century American sex and culture. It traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s. The book argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier. From World War II-era “victory girls” to teen lesbians in the 1940s and 1950s, these nonconforming women and girls navigated and resisted intense social and interpersonal pressures to fit existing mores, using the upheavals of the era to pursue new sexual freedoms. Building on a new generation of research on postwar society, the text tells the history of diverse young women who stood at the center of major cultural change and helped transform a society bound by conservative sexual morality into one more open to individualism, plurality, and pleasure in modern sexual life.
Nona Willis Aronowitz
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816681204
- eISBN:
- 9781452949048
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681204.003.0020
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines sexual revolution from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on how sexual morality in a patriarchal culture becomes a primary instrument of social control. It ...
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This chapter examines sexual revolution from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on how sexual morality in a patriarchal culture becomes a primary instrument of social control. It considers the debate between feminist sexual radicals and conservatives concerning a wide range of sex-related issues, including pornography, the definition of sexual consent, the nature of women’s sexuality and whether it is intrinsically different from men’s, and the meaning of heterosexuality for women. Each of these issues, in turn, became a focus of deeply felt disagreement over the place of sexuality and sexual morality in a feminist analysis and program. In one way or another, they raise the question of whether sexual freedom, as such, is a feminist value, or whether feminism ought rather to aim at replacing male-defined social controls over sex with female-defined controls.Less
This chapter examines sexual revolution from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on how sexual morality in a patriarchal culture becomes a primary instrument of social control. It considers the debate between feminist sexual radicals and conservatives concerning a wide range of sex-related issues, including pornography, the definition of sexual consent, the nature of women’s sexuality and whether it is intrinsically different from men’s, and the meaning of heterosexuality for women. Each of these issues, in turn, became a focus of deeply felt disagreement over the place of sexuality and sexual morality in a feminist analysis and program. In one way or another, they raise the question of whether sexual freedom, as such, is a feminist value, or whether feminism ought rather to aim at replacing male-defined social controls over sex with female-defined controls.
Hugh B. Urban
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520247765
- eISBN:
- 9780520932883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520247765.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter discusses the broader implications of modern sexual magic, both for religious studies and for our understanding of sexuality in contemporary culture as a whole. It suggests that the ...
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This chapter discusses the broader implications of modern sexual magic, both for religious studies and for our understanding of sexuality in contemporary culture as a whole. It suggests that the advocates of sexual magic provided a telling insight into the larger desires, fears, and contradictions surrounding sexuality in Western society over the last two hundred years, and expressed both the hope of liberation through sexual freedom and the ever-present danger of the commodification of desire in the late capitalist world. The chapter contends that sexual magic also raised many difficult questions about the relationship between sexuality and religion today, in the aftermath of our various cultural and sexual revolutions.Less
This chapter discusses the broader implications of modern sexual magic, both for religious studies and for our understanding of sexuality in contemporary culture as a whole. It suggests that the advocates of sexual magic provided a telling insight into the larger desires, fears, and contradictions surrounding sexuality in Western society over the last two hundred years, and expressed both the hope of liberation through sexual freedom and the ever-present danger of the commodification of desire in the late capitalist world. The chapter contends that sexual magic also raised many difficult questions about the relationship between sexuality and religion today, in the aftermath of our various cultural and sexual revolutions.
Ellen Willis
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680795
- eISBN:
- 9781452949000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680795.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter examines sexual revolution from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on how sexual morality in a patriarchal culture becomes a primary instrument of social control. It ...
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This chapter examines sexual revolution from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on how sexual morality in a patriarchal culture becomes a primary instrument of social control. It considers the debate between feminist sexual radicals and conservatives concerning a wide range of sex-related issues, including pornography, the definition of sexual consent, the nature of women’s sexuality and whether it is intrinsically different from men’s, and the meaning of heterosexuality for women. It also explores how each of these issues became a focus of deeply felt disagreement over the place of sexuality and sexual morality in a feminist analysis and program, arguing that they raise the question of whether sexual freedom is a feminist value, or whether feminism ought rather to aim at replacing male-defined social controls over sex with female-defined controls.Less
This chapter examines sexual revolution from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on how sexual morality in a patriarchal culture becomes a primary instrument of social control. It considers the debate between feminist sexual radicals and conservatives concerning a wide range of sex-related issues, including pornography, the definition of sexual consent, the nature of women’s sexuality and whether it is intrinsically different from men’s, and the meaning of heterosexuality for women. It also explores how each of these issues became a focus of deeply felt disagreement over the place of sexuality and sexual morality in a feminist analysis and program, arguing that they raise the question of whether sexual freedom is a feminist value, or whether feminism ought rather to aim at replacing male-defined social controls over sex with female-defined controls.
Yvonne Zylan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199735082
- eISBN:
- 9780199894802
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735082.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. It discusses the social construction of desire in the law of homosex and argues that there are reasons to question the wisdom of approaching the ...
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This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. It discusses the social construction of desire in the law of homosex and argues that there are reasons to question the wisdom of approaching the project of sexual freedom and equality via state-centric, juridical strategies.Less
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. It discusses the social construction of desire in the law of homosex and argues that there are reasons to question the wisdom of approaching the project of sexual freedom and equality via state-centric, juridical strategies.
Jonathan I. Israel
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206088
- eISBN:
- 9780191676970
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206088.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas, European Modern History
This chapter begins with a discussion of how the shift of intellectual debate in Europe from Latin to French, and from the academic sphere to courts, coffee-houses, clubs, and salons, enabled some ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of how the shift of intellectual debate in Europe from Latin to French, and from the academic sphere to courts, coffee-houses, clubs, and salons, enabled some women — especially noble ladies supplemented with a sprinkling of escaped nuns, actresses, female singers, courtesans, and others who were relatively well-educated — to discover the new philosophy and science and by means of intellectual ‘enlightenment’ transform their outlook and lives. It then turns to the conversational and sexual freedom brought about by philosophy.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of how the shift of intellectual debate in Europe from Latin to French, and from the academic sphere to courts, coffee-houses, clubs, and salons, enabled some women — especially noble ladies supplemented with a sprinkling of escaped nuns, actresses, female singers, courtesans, and others who were relatively well-educated — to discover the new philosophy and science and by means of intellectual ‘enlightenment’ transform their outlook and lives. It then turns to the conversational and sexual freedom brought about by philosophy.
Dale M. Bauer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832301
- eISBN:
- 9781469605647
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807887691_bauer
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This book contends that American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom. By creating a lexicon of “sex expression,” many ...
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This book contends that American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom. By creating a lexicon of “sex expression,” many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified. The book explains that whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in these women's novels, insofar as these novelists seized the power of rhetoric to establish their intellectual authority. Thus, it argues, they helped transform the traditional ideal of sexual purity into a new goal of sexual pleasure, defining in their fiction what intimacy between equals might become. Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers—including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin, and Fannie Hurst, among others—the book demonstrates that the new sexualization of American culture was both material and rhetorical.Less
This book contends that American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom. By creating a lexicon of “sex expression,” many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to the realm of sentiments, where it had been relegated by earlier writers. This new rhetoric of sexuality enabled critical conversations about who had sex, when in life they had it, and how it signified. The book explains that whether liberating or repressive, sexuality became a potential force for female agency in these women's novels, insofar as these novelists seized the power of rhetoric to establish their intellectual authority. Thus, it argues, they helped transform the traditional ideal of sexual purity into a new goal of sexual pleasure, defining in their fiction what intimacy between equals might become. Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers—including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin, and Fannie Hurst, among others—the book demonstrates that the new sexualization of American culture was both material and rhetorical.
Leo Bersani
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226579627
- eISBN:
- 9780226579931
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226579931.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This chapter focuses on Michel Foucault's superficially counter-intuitive attack on what he calls the “repressive hypothesis” concerning sex. The accepted idea, which Foucault sets out to reverse, is ...
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This chapter focuses on Michel Foucault's superficially counter-intuitive attack on what he calls the “repressive hypothesis” concerning sex. The accepted idea, which Foucault sets out to reverse, is that humans have been living, for at least three centuries, in a regime of sexual repression, one in which sex, subjected to general rules of prohibition, censorship, and denial, has been reduced to invisibility and silence. For Foucault, the stakes in the exercise of power are much higher than sexual freedom or sexual repression. He is interested in considerably more than drawing people's attention to the paradoxical relation between the control of our sexuality and the apparent freedom with which we are encouraged to talk about sex.Less
This chapter focuses on Michel Foucault's superficially counter-intuitive attack on what he calls the “repressive hypothesis” concerning sex. The accepted idea, which Foucault sets out to reverse, is that humans have been living, for at least three centuries, in a regime of sexual repression, one in which sex, subjected to general rules of prohibition, censorship, and denial, has been reduced to invisibility and silence. For Foucault, the stakes in the exercise of power are much higher than sexual freedom or sexual repression. He is interested in considerably more than drawing people's attention to the paradoxical relation between the control of our sexuality and the apparent freedom with which we are encouraged to talk about sex.
Mary P. Ryan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807830628
- eISBN:
- 9781469606057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807876688_ryan.9
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter discusses the emergence and historical course of a second wave of feminist mass movement that swept through American politics and culture. It also describes how movements for sexual ...
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This chapter discusses the emergence and historical course of a second wave of feminist mass movement that swept through American politics and culture. It also describes how movements for sexual freedom and homosexual rights posed a public challenge to the conventional organization of the relations of the sexes.Less
This chapter discusses the emergence and historical course of a second wave of feminist mass movement that swept through American politics and culture. It also describes how movements for sexual freedom and homosexual rights posed a public challenge to the conventional organization of the relations of the sexes.
Judith Butler
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823251681
- eISBN:
- 9780823252862
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823251681.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
In this chapter, the author responds to the essays by Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood regarding the critique of secularism, as well as issues of free speech, blasphemy, and religious extremism raised by ...
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In this chapter, the author responds to the essays by Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood regarding the critique of secularism, as well as issues of free speech, blasphemy, and religious extremism raised by the Danish cartoon controversy—the protests and debates sparked by the 2005 Danish newspaper publication of a series of cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. The author weaves together and extends their critiques of the inherent secularism attributed to critique in the modern Western tradition. She also affirms their challenges to Western representations of blasphemy, injury, and freedom by citing the existence of a normative framework constraining and regulating the semantic fields in which such terms operate. In addition, the author makes a distinction between critique and criticism before offering her own critique of sexual freedom in “secular” immigration politics in the Netherlands.Less
In this chapter, the author responds to the essays by Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood regarding the critique of secularism, as well as issues of free speech, blasphemy, and religious extremism raised by the Danish cartoon controversy—the protests and debates sparked by the 2005 Danish newspaper publication of a series of cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. The author weaves together and extends their critiques of the inherent secularism attributed to critique in the modern Western tradition. She also affirms their challenges to Western representations of blasphemy, injury, and freedom by citing the existence of a normative framework constraining and regulating the semantic fields in which such terms operate. In addition, the author makes a distinction between critique and criticism before offering her own critique of sexual freedom in “secular” immigration politics in the Netherlands.
Virginia Berridge
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204725
- eISBN:
- 9780191676376
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204725.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses voluntarism and self-help after the initial responses, among gays, but also among the emergent scientific, clinical, and epidemiological specialisms. AIDS policy-making in the ...
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This chapter discusses voluntarism and self-help after the initial responses, among gays, but also among the emergent scientific, clinical, and epidemiological specialisms. AIDS policy-making in the UK has passed through four distinct phases. AIDS emerged as a new policy arena. The early response to AIDS in the UK was essentially a voluntarist one. British gays with early knowledge took steps to establish the first formal structures to respond. Sex, and a greater emphasis on the pursuit of sexual freedom and choice, was a bond that bound this male community together. The organized gay response to AIDS began to heighten, and also significantly to change focus at the same time. Gay organizations began to focus their efforts around AIDS. The Gay Medical Association, launched three years previously, set up an AIDS working-groups and they began educational work firstly by the drafting of a leaflet.Less
This chapter discusses voluntarism and self-help after the initial responses, among gays, but also among the emergent scientific, clinical, and epidemiological specialisms. AIDS policy-making in the UK has passed through four distinct phases. AIDS emerged as a new policy arena. The early response to AIDS in the UK was essentially a voluntarist one. British gays with early knowledge took steps to establish the first formal structures to respond. Sex, and a greater emphasis on the pursuit of sexual freedom and choice, was a bond that bound this male community together. The organized gay response to AIDS began to heighten, and also significantly to change focus at the same time. Gay organizations began to focus their efforts around AIDS. The Gay Medical Association, launched three years previously, set up an AIDS working-groups and they began educational work firstly by the drafting of a leaflet.
Simone de Beauvoir
Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039003
- eISBN:
- 9780252097171
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039003.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for the author's more ...
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By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for the author's more familiar writings. Spanning the author's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including the famous 1972 announcement of a “conversion to feminism” after decades of activism on behalf of women. The book documents and contextualizes the author's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the book provides new insights into the author's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.Less
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for the author's more familiar writings. Spanning the author's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including the famous 1972 announcement of a “conversion to feminism” after decades of activism on behalf of women. The book documents and contextualizes the author's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the book provides new insights into the author's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.
Anthony M. Petro
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199391288
- eISBN:
- 9780199391318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199391288.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the Stop the Church movement, orchestrated by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP. Stop the Church culminated in a nationally publicized protest in 1989 at St. ...
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This chapter examines the Stop the Church movement, orchestrated by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP. Stop the Church culminated in a nationally publicized protest in 1989 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, the seat of power of Cardinal John O’Connor. Protesting the Catholic Church’s stance on condoms, gay rights, and abortion, ACT UP members offered an alternative political and moral vision that called for sexual freedom. In doing so, they sought to limit the role of conservative religious leaders in debates about public health and HIV prevention, while simultaneously challenging the very terms of “religion” itself, often reclaiming it for their own needs.Less
This chapter examines the Stop the Church movement, orchestrated by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP. Stop the Church culminated in a nationally publicized protest in 1989 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, the seat of power of Cardinal John O’Connor. Protesting the Catholic Church’s stance on condoms, gay rights, and abortion, ACT UP members offered an alternative political and moral vision that called for sexual freedom. In doing so, they sought to limit the role of conservative religious leaders in debates about public health and HIV prevention, while simultaneously challenging the very terms of “religion” itself, often reclaiming it for their own needs.
Jill Suzanne Smith
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452673
- eISBN:
- 9780801469701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452673.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter exhibits how the discourse on prostitution is shaped by various players, and complex negotiations regarding sexual behavior and its regulation takes place between police, citizens, and ...
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This chapter exhibits how the discourse on prostitution is shaped by various players, and complex negotiations regarding sexual behavior and its regulation takes place between police, citizens, and politicians. It shows how various social actors in late Weimar Berlin, most of whom were women, engaged in a strategic conflation of prostitutes with urban “working girls” in order to explore both the limits and the possibilities of female emancipation. Prostitutes asserted their rights to be treated like normal working women, while elected officials and authors fought to safeguard women's sexual freedom. Through open discussions and complex representations of “hwG” persons—a term for self-designated prostitutes and promiscuous persons—politicians and writers reveal how prostitution is intimately connected to issues of labor, public comportment, sexual choice, and gender parity.Less
This chapter exhibits how the discourse on prostitution is shaped by various players, and complex negotiations regarding sexual behavior and its regulation takes place between police, citizens, and politicians. It shows how various social actors in late Weimar Berlin, most of whom were women, engaged in a strategic conflation of prostitutes with urban “working girls” in order to explore both the limits and the possibilities of female emancipation. Prostitutes asserted their rights to be treated like normal working women, while elected officials and authors fought to safeguard women's sexual freedom. Through open discussions and complex representations of “hwG” persons—a term for self-designated prostitutes and promiscuous persons—politicians and writers reveal how prostitution is intimately connected to issues of labor, public comportment, sexual choice, and gender parity.
