Sex and Gender A Spectrum of Views

by Devine, Philip E.; Wolf-Devine, Celia

• ISBN13: 9780534523381
• ISBN10: 0534523382
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-18
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

SEX AND GENDER: A SPECTRUM OF VIEWS provides a medium for discussion and debate about today's most provocative issues concerning human sexuality and the relationships between masculinity and femininity. Including a spectrum of views that ranges from the stridently conservative to the progressively feminist, this anthology engages students in these subjects using a wider range of standpoints than is typical of such readers.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	v
Introduction for Students	viii
About the Editors	xiv
About the Contributors	xiv
Methodological Prologue: How Should We Think About Sex and Gender?	1	(3)
``A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover''	4	(5)
D. H. Lawrence
``The Fruits of Unreason''	9	(8)
Janet Radcliffe Richards
UNIT I MALE AND FEMALE: IS THE DISTINCTION NATURAL OR CONVENTIONAL?	17	(64)
``My Conundrum''	22	(8)
Jan Morris
``The Principle of Totality-A Possible Justification for Transsexual Surgery?''	30	(5)
Anthony Mastroeni
``The Universality of Sex Roles''	35	(8)
Stephen B. Clark
``The Primacy of Gender Attribution''	43	(10)
Suzanne Kessler
Wendy McKenna
``Sex Roles and the Ideal Society''	53	(5)
Richard Wasserstrom
``Biology, Mere and Otherwise''	58	(8)
Mary Midgley
Judith Hughes
``Sex and Gender''	66	(15)
Roger Scruton
UNIT II SEXUALITY: THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT	81	(62)
``The Inherent Privacy of Sex''	87	(3)
Richard Mohr
``Intercourse''	90	(5)
Andrea Dworkin
``The Place of Sex Among Human Values''	95	(3)
Bertrand Russell
``Sexual Perversion''	98	(7)
Thomas Nagel
``Reproduction as the Goal of Sexuality''	105	(2)
Richard Connell
``Sexual Intercourse: Its Relation to the Rest of Women's Sexual Role''	107	(7)
Niles Newton
``The Politics of Orgasm''	114	(4)
Susan Lydon
``Late Victorians''	118	(10)
Richard Rodriguez
``From Old Gay to New''	128	(7)
Arlene Stein
``The Ladder of Eros''	135	(8)
Plato
UNIT III REPRODUCTION: HOW FAR SHOULD WE TRY TO CONTROL IT?	143	(64)
``We Do Abortions Here''	150	(5)
Sallie Tisdale
``A Defense of Abortion''	155	(8)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
``Abortion and the `Feminine Voice'''	163	(10)
Celia Wolf-Devin
``Birth Control and the Ideals of Marital Sexuality''	173	(5)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
``Marriage and Contraception''	178	(7)
Cormac Burke
``Collaborative Reproduction: Donors and Surrogates''	185	(7)
John Robertson
``Technology as Destiny''	192	(5)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
``Cutting Motherhood in Two''	197	(10)
Hilde
James Lindemann Nelson
UNIT IV MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: IS THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY A GOOD THING?	207	(58)
``Existential Ethics and Why It's Immoral to Be a Housewife''	216	(6)
Donald L. Hatcher
``Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds: Deference and Disaffection in Women's Emotional Labor''	222	(6)
Sandra Bartky
``Justice and the Family''	228	(6)
John Rawls
``Liberalism and the Limits of Justice''	234	(4)
Michael Sandel
``Justice, Gender, and the Family''	238	(8)
Susan Moller Okin
``The Power of the Positive Woman''	246	(4)
Phyllis Schlafly
``Feminists Against the Family''	250	(5)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
``When the Bough Breaks''	255	(10)
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
UNIT V POLITICS: GENDER IN THE PUBLIC ARENA	265	(74)
``Sex Wars: Not the Fun Kind''	276	(4)
Sandra Gilbert
Susan Gubar
``Political Philosophies of Women's Liberation''	280	(6)
Alison Jaggar
``Reweaving Society''	286	(4)
Juli Loesch Wiley
``Is the Favoring of Women and Blacks in Employment and Educational Opportunities Justified?''	290	(6)
Louis Katzner
``In Defense of Hiring Apparently Less Qualified Women''	296	(3)
Laura Purdy
``Sexual Harassment: Its First Decade in Court (1986)''	299	(9)
Catharine MacKinnon
``Reckless Eyeballing''	308	(4)
Katie Roiphe
``Men Without Women''	312	(4)
Michael Novak
``Homosex/Ethics''	316	(5)
Timothy F. Murphy
``The Conservative Case for Same-Sex Marriage''	321	(4)
Andrew Sullivan
```Same-Sex Marriage' and `Moral Neutrality'''	325	(5)
Robert P. George
``The Question of Marriage: Two Arguments''	330	(1)
David Orgon Coolidge
``Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?''	331	(3)
Paula Ettelbrick
``Retying the Knot''	334	(5)
E. J. Graff
UNIT VI RELIGION: NAMING THE SUPREME BEING	339	(64)
``The Sacredness of Nature and Cosmic Religion: Sky Gods and Mother Earth''	350	(5)
Mircea Eliade
Genesis: Chapters 1-3	355	(3)
``Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections''	358	(5)
Carol P. Christ
``Basic Linguistic Options: God Women, Equivalence...''	363	(6)
Elizabeth Johnson
``On the Fatherhood of God'' and ``Is 'God the Mother' Just as Good?''	369	(6)
Juli Loesch Wiley
``Making Inclusive Language Inclusive: A Christian Gay Man's View''	375	(4)
Richard Davis
``God the Father, God the Mother, and Goddesses''	379	(7)
Susanne Heine
``Why Christians Name God `Father'''	386	(6)
Gary Culpepper
``Ecofeminism: Symbolic and Social Connections of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature''	392	(7)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
``Women in Genesis 1-3''	399	(4)
Edith Black
``Traditional Judaism and Feminine Spirituality''	403
Tamar Frankiel