Invented Moralities
Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty
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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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Jeffrey Weeks
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Cultural Studies Gender & Sexuality Gender Studies Geschlecht u. Sexualität Geschlechterforschung Kulturwissenschaften Sociology Soziologie
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'His 'nouveau' morality combines the acceptance of erotic diversitywith the valuation of responsibility, love, care and solidarity. Itis a moving and inspiring read.' Tribune
'[An] important book.' The Guardian
'Jeffrey Weeks' Invented Moralities is a response to theheated debate about sexual morality which has emerged over the past20 years as the destabilisation of the 'heterosexual tradition' hasbecome increasingly apparent.' Living Marxism
'Lively and wide-ranging, Weeks' book combines humour withscholarship, personal experience with observation to make a seriouscontribution to debates about fundamental issues such as love, sexand the importance of relationships. Weeks' advocacy of humanisticpluralism, as he identifies it, is provocative, thoughtful and verypersuasive.' Morning Star
'A well-argued message of hope and encouragement ... this bookis an important contribution to the discourse of post-modernity aswell as sexual (particularly gay and lesbian) identities andmoralities. It ought to be widely read and discussed.'Sociology
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