Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender) - Softcover

Seidman, Steven

 
9780415903578: Embattled Eros: Sexual Politics and Ethics in Contemporary America (Thinking Gender)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415903572 ISBN 13: 9780415903578
Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

A sophisticated analysis of contemporary sexual life and its moral conflicts that examines the two sexual ideologies, the libertarian and romanticist and looks at how to preserve sexual choice and pleasure and offer social and personal criticisms.

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Review

"...lucid, graceful and sensible...Siedman's treatment usefully deepens our understanding of some contemporary sexual controversies.." -- David F. Greenberg.Ph.D. Archives of Sexual Behavior - 1998

"This is an important book that bravely tackles perhaps the key question on modern sexual politics: in the post-modern flux, where old certainties have collapsed, on what foundations can a progressive sexual ethics be built? In a lively analysis, Steven Seidman takes us beyond romanticism and libertarianism to an ethics where consent and responsibility become the crucial guidelines for a culture in which sexual diversity is the norm. This book is a major contribution to the ongoing sexuality debate, and will surely become one of its key texts." -- Jeffrey Weeks, Professor of Social Relations, Bristol Polytechnic, England.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415903572
ISBN 13 
9780415903578
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

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