Invented Moralities
Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty
Published on 2. May 2013
224 pages
978-0-7456-6906-9 (ISBN)
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This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.
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Jeffrey Weeks is Professor of Sociology at South Bank University and the author of The Lesser Evil and the Greater Good (Rivers Oram, 1994), Against Nature (Rivers Oram, 1991) and Sexuality (Tavistock, 1986).
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Values, Whose Values?.
1. Living with Uncertainty.
2. Inventing Moralities.
3. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politicsof Diversity.
4. The Sphere of the Intimate, and the Values of EverydayLife.
5. Caught Between Worlds and Ways of Being.
Bibliography.
Index.
Introduction: Values, Whose Values?.
1. Living with Uncertainty.
2. Inventing Moralities.
3. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politicsof Diversity.
4. The Sphere of the Intimate, and the Values of EverydayLife.
5. Caught Between Worlds and Ways of Being.
Bibliography.
Index.
