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Sexual Ethics in the Age of Epidemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Iris Marion Young
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Abstract

In this essay I follow one argument strand from Linda Singer's Erotic Welfare. How can we have a forward-looking and affirmative ideal of sexual freedom when the AIDS panic has altered the sexual landscape and instigated new justifications for oppressive sexual disciplines? How can we be sexual subjects when processes of commodification and disciplinary practices have constrained sexual expression while proliferating sexual fetishes? These are some of the questions this book formulates, without answering.

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Review Essay
Information
Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 184 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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