Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty

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John Wiley & Sons, 2013 M05 28 - 224 pages
This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.

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Contents

Values whose Values?
1
1 Living with Uncertainty
15
2 Inventing Moralities
46
Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity
82
4 The Sphere of the Intimate and the Values of Everyday Life
124
5 Caught between Worlds and Ways of Being
155
Bibliography
189
Index
206
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Jeffrey Weeks is Professor of Sociology at South Bank University and the author of The Lesser Evil and the Greater Good (Rivers Oram, 1994), Against Nature (Rivers Oram, 1991) and Sexuality (Tavistock, 1986).

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