Invented Moralities : Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty

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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Values, whose Values?

A changing sexual landscape

Thinking the erotic

Whose values?

1 Living with Uncertainty

Living with AIDS

A sense of an ending?

The self and identity

Sexuality, relationships and the democratic imagination

Towards a radical humanism

2 Inventing Moralities

The contingencies of the erotic

The paths of invention

Diversity and choice

Autonomy and authenticity

Toleration and solidarity

3 Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity

Identity trouble

The paradoxes of identity

Causing trouble: transgression and sexual citizenship

4 The Sphere of the Intimate and the Values of Everyday Life

Shifting boundaries

Locating the private

The rights of everyday life

5 Caught between Worlds and Ways of Being

Prologue

Matters of life and death

A love ethic

Epilogue: being alive

Bibliography

Index