Morris B. Kaplan

Gebundenes Buch

Sexual Justice

Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire

Beschreibung

Sexual Justice defends a robust a robust conception of lesbian and gay rights, emphasizing protection against discrimination and recognition of queer relationships and families. Synthesizing materials from law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, Kaplan argues that sexual desire is central to the pursuit of happiness: equal citizenship requires individual freedom to shape oneself through a variety of intimate associations.

Autor

Morris B. Kaplan teaches philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. He has served as a trial attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York and as inaugural Rockefeller Fellow in Legal Humanities, Stanford Humanities Center, 1993-94. He has published in Praxis International, Virginia Law Review, GLQ, ThePhilosophical Forum, Metaphilosophy, and The Journal ofthe History of Sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780415905145
• ISBN-10: 0415905141
• Artikelnr.: 21375823