Morris B. Kaplan

Sexual Justice (eBook, ePUB)

Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136039102
• Artikelnr.: 38258455

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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