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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 | |