Gay Ethics
Subtitle: Controversies in Outing, Civil Rights, and Sexual Science
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781560246718
Subjects: Sociology; Outing (Sexual orientation); Ethics (Specific Aspects); Homosexuality; Social Science; United States; Sociology - General; Gay Studies; Coming out (Sexual orientation; Coming out (Sexual orientation); Moral and ethical aspects
First sentence: The essays gathered here suggest how ethics have come to countenance gay and lesbian sexualities and identities in ways that move beyond conventional philosophical analyses that focused exclusively on the morality of specific kinds of sexual acts, the nature of perversion, or the cogency of scientific accounts of the origins of homoeroticism.