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The Morality of Gay Rights : an Exploration in Political Philosophy

Author
Ball, Carlos A.
Published
Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Citation Abbreviations; Introduction: Why Morality?; One Neutral Liberalism; 1. Rawls's Political liberalism; 2. Rawls from a Gay Rights Perspective; 3. Dworkin's Liberal Equality and Moral Bracketing; 4. The Later Dworkin: Individual Ethics and the Liberal Society; Two Pragmatic Liberalism; 1. Rorty's Pragmatism; 2. Rorty from a Gay Rights Perspective; 3. Posner's Pragmatism and Human Sexuality; 4. Rational Man as Moral Man; Three Moral Liberalism. and 1. Needs, Capabilities, and the Leading of Full Human Lives2. Relationships, Attachments, and Autonomy; 3. Moral Liberalism and Gay Rights; Four Communitarianism; 1. Sondellian Values and Communities; 2. The Role of Community in the Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men; 3. Walzer and Justice; 4. Internal Social Criticism: Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting by Lesbians and Gay Men; Five Postmodernism; 1. Foucault and Sexual Ethics; 2. Agency Versus Autonomy in Foucault's Late Writings; 3. Codes of Conduct and a Gay and Lesbian Sexual Ethic; Notes; Index.
Summary
In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical frameworks fit the specific gay rights controversies, such as same-sex marriage and parenting by lesbians and gay men, that are part of our nation's political and legal debates.
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9781135317362 (electronic bk.)
1135317364 (electronic bk.)
0415931401
9780415931403
041593141X
9780415931410
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-261) and index.
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