The Philosophy of Love and Sex

by Martin, Clancy; Hay, Carol

• ISBN13: 9780190644758
• ISBN10: 0190644753
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-10-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A new, annotated reader, The Philosophy of Love and Sex presents not only classic readings on love and sex from a diverse selection of philosophical perspectives, but also groundbreaking work in this rapidly changing field. Unlike existing readers, this comprehensive reader takes an interdisciplinary approach, choosing to include the voices of philosophers and philosophically minded thinkers from many different traditions, emphasizing not only the core writers who have defined the tradition, such as Plato and Stendhal, but work as recent as 2015 from feminists, transgendered persons, and others.

Table of Contents

PART ONE. LOVE

I. What is Love?

1. Thomas Merton, “Love and Need: Is Love a Package or a Message?”

2. Plato, Symposium (selections)

3. Stendhal, “Love as Crystallization”

4. Irving Singer, “Appraisal and Bestowal”

5. Mandy Len Catron, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This”

6. Robert Nozick, “Love's Bond”

7. Edith Gwendolyn Nally. “The Case for Platonic Love”

8. Raja Rosenhagen, “Iris Murdoch on Love as Just Attention”

9. Simon May, “Love as Perfect Friendship: Aristotle”

10. Clancy Martin, Love & Lies (selections)

11. Pope Francis, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”)

II. The Moral & Political Implications of Love: Marriage & Family

Marriage

12. Emma Goldman, “Marriage and Love”

13. Mary Lyndon Shanley, “Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women”

14. James Conlon, “Why Lovers Can't be Friends”

15. Carole Pateman, “Feminism and the Marriage Contract”

16. Elizabeth Brake, “Minimal Marriage: What Political Liberalism Implies for Marriage Law”

17. Claudia Card, “Against Marriage and Motherhood”

18. Charles Mills, “Do Black Men have a Moral Duty to Marry Black Women?”

19. John Corvino, “Man on Man, Man on Dog, or Whatever the Case May Be”

20. Elizabeth Emens, “Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence”

The Family

21. Charlotte Witt, “A Critique of the Bionormative Concept of the Family”

22. Jane English, “What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?”

PART TWO. SEX

I. What is Sex?

23. Greta Christina, “Are We Having Sex Now, or What?”

24. Alan Goldman, “Plain Sex”

25. Augustine, Confessions and On Christian Doctrine (selections)

26. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (selections)

27. Gloria Anzaldua, “La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness”

28. Talia Mae Bettcher, “When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach Us About Sexual Orientation”

29. Elizabeth Grosz, “Refiguring Lesbian Desire”

II. The Moral and Political Implications of Sex

Mortal Bodies: Discussions of Sex, Consent, & Violence

30. Vera Bergelson, “The Meaning of Consent”

31. Robin West, “The Harms of Consensual Sex”

32. Ann J. Cahill, “Feminist Theories of Rape: Sex or Violence?”

33. Bonnie Mann, “Creepers, Flirts, Heroes, and Allies: Four Theses on Men and Sexual Harassment”

34. Evangelia Papadaki, “Sexual Objectification: From Kant to Contemporary Feminism”

35. Carol Hay, “The Obligation to Resist Oppression”

36. Jordan Pascoe, “Kant and Kinky Sex”

37. Sandra Lee Bartky, “Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation”

II. Bodies for Sale: Pornography & Sex Work

38. Debra Satz, “Markets in Women's Sexual Labor”

39. Martha Nussbaum, “ 'Whether From Reason Or Prejudice”': Taking Money For Bodily Services”

40. Lori Watson, “Why Sex Work Isn't Work”

41. Catharine MacKinnon, “Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech”

42. Gloria Steinem, “Erotica and Pornography: A Clear and Present Difference”

43. Nancy Bauer, “Pornutopia”

III. Non-normative Bodies: Discussions of Race, LGBTQ, & Disability

44. Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew”

45. bell hooks, “Reflections on Race and Sex”

46. Judith Butler, “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality”

47. Ivan Coyote, “Fear and Loathing in Public Bathrooms, or How I Learned to Hold My Pee”

48. Tobin Siebers, “A Sexual Culture for Disabled People”

49. Jennifer Bartlett, “Longing for the Male Gaze”