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Preface | |
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Opening the Questions | |
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Finding the Way | |
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Why We Are Here | |
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New Maps | |
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Problems with the Terrain | |
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The Task | |
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The Questions and Their Past | |
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Sex, Morality, and History: Theories of Interpretation | |
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Michel Foucault: The Historical Constitution of Desire | |
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Catherine MacKinnon: Historical Silences/Gendered Violence | |
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Evolutionary Histories: Sexuality and Change | |
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Sexual Ethics in the West: Historical Perspective | |
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Sexuality in Antiquity: The Legacy of Greece and Rome | |
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Judaism: Sexuality, Morality, and Religion | |
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Christian Traditions | |
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Secular Paths: Philosophical Developments, Medical Influences | |
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From the Past to the Present | |
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Difficult Crossings: Diverse Traditions | |
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Importance for Sexual Ethics | |
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Possibilities of Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Awareness | |
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Obstacles to the Search for Alternative Perspectives | |
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Colonialist Research and Its Postcolonial Critics | |
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The Lessons of "Orientalism" | |
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Lessons for Sexual Ethics | |
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Pre-modern Islands of the South Seas | |
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African Cultures | |
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Sexuality and Community | |
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Gender, Marriage, and Family | |
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New Interpreters and Critics: Sustainable African Sexualities | |
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Kamasutra: Hindu Textbook on Erotic Love | |
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The World of Islam | |
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Diversity Unlimited? | |
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Sexuality and Its Meanings | |
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How the Body Matters | |
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Theories of the Body | |
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Transcendent Embodiment | |
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Whether Gender Matters | |
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Gender Theory and Practice | |
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Christian Theologies | |
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Biology, Culture, and Experience | |
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Biology, Culture, and More Experience | |
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Whether Gender Matters | |
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Sexuality and Its Meanings | |
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Elements in Sexual Experience | |
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Love, Desire, and Sexuality | |
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Just Love and Just Sex: Preliminary Considerations | |
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Sexuality and Justice | |
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Alternative Frameworks | |
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Sources for Christian Sexual Ethics | |
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Scripture | |
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Tradition | |
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Secular Disciplines of Knowledge | |
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Contemporary Experience | |
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Love and Just Love | |
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Moral Norms for a Just Love | |
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Love and Freedom | |
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Desire | |
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Framework for a Sexual Ethic: Just Sex | |
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Justice | |
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The Concrete Reality of Persons | |
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Obligating Features of Personhood | |
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Norms for Just Sex | |
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Do No Unjust Harm | |
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Free Consent | |
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Mutuality | |
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Equality | |
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Commitment | |
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Fruitfulness | |
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Social Justice | |
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Special Questions | |
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An Ethic Only for Adults? | |
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Sexual Relations with Oneself | |
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The Negative Potential of Sex | |
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Character, Faith, and Sexual Justice | |
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Patterns of Relationship: Contexts for Just Love | |
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Marriage and Family | |
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Historical and Cultural Contexts | |
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Christianity and Its Influences | |
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Descriptive and Normative Questions | |
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Same-Sex Relationships | |
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Theological and Ethical Sources | |
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Same-Sex Relationships and Justice | |
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Sexual Orientation: Given or Chosen | |
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Divorce and Remarriage | |
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The Marriage Commitment: Making, Keeping, Changing | |
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Divorce | |
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Remarriage | |
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Index | |