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By David M. Estlund, Martha C. Nussbaum

The general public furor over problems with comparable intercourse marriages, homosexual rights, pornography, and single-parent households has erupted with a keenness now not noticeable because the Nineteen Sixties. This booklet gathers seventeen eminent philosophers and criminal students who provide observation on sexuality (including sexual habit, sexual orientation, and the position of pornography in shaping sexuality), at the relations (including either same-sex and single-parent families), and at the right position of legislations in those components. The essayists are all fiercely self reliant thinkers and provide the reader a variety of daring and thought-provoking proposals. Susan Moller Okin argues, for example, that gender should be performed away with--that changes in organic intercourse should have "no extra social relevance than one's eye colour or the size of one's toes"--and she urges that we glance to same-sex as a version for families and households in a gender-free society. And Cass Sunstein means that the preferrred courtroom case Loving vs. Virginia (which overthrew the ban on interracial marriages in Virginia) may be a precedent for overturning legislation that bar same-sex marriage: simply as Loving overturned miscegenation legislation simply because they have been on the provider of white supremacy, Sunstein indicates, the legislation opposed to same-sex marriages and homosexuality are on the provider of male supremacy, and can even be overturned. of significant value to someone attracted to sexuality, homosexuality, gender, feminism, and the relations. intercourse, choice, and the relatives either clarifies the present debate and issues the way in which towards a much less divisive destiny.

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Sidel, Ruth. 1992. Women and Children Last. The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America. , revised. New York: Viking Penguin. Smothers, Ronald. 1993. Tell It to Mom, Dad and the Authorities. New York Times, Nov. 14. Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe. 1993. Dan Quayle Was Right. Atlantic Monthly 27 (April). Page 17 2 Constructing Love, Desire, and Care Martha C. Nussbaum According to an ancient Indian legend, wise men were once troubled about the power of sexuality in the life of the world. " Siva's penis promptly fell to the ground.

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Nussbaum 319 Index, 339 Contributors, 351 Page 1 PART I SEX, PREFERENCE, AND FAMILY Page 3 1 The Social Construction and Reconstruction of Care Michele M. Moody-Adams The Importance of the Public Household On a recent anniversary of the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, a fundamentalist Christian church in a small Midwestern city displayed the following message: "Thinking abortion? First visit our pastor. " That ambiguity raises important questions about how care for children and families might be supplemented by agencies outside the domestic householdmost notably, voluntary private assistance or the workings of what Daniel Bell has called the public household.

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