Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing - Couverture souple

Harrison, Kelby

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498511287 ISBN 13 : 9781498511285

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2015

Synopsis

Sexual Deceit is an extended ethical analysis of the phenomenon of sexual identity passing - i.e. socially presenting as X, when one understands oneself as Y, where the variables represent any contemporary sexual identity - alongside identity passing in the contexts of race, gender, and briefly, religion and class. The analysis of passing utilizes and challenges traditional moral understandings of identity falsification, complicating our understandings of moral obligations under systemic oppression. Tracing the intervention of social construction theory on contemporary political understandings of LGBT communities and activism, Sexual Deceit argues against social construction models of identity - notably performativity, promulgated by the work of Judith Butler and consumed and repeated by many scholars and theory educated queer people. A new model of identity is constructed, based on a phenomenological concept of style that provides for a socially adjustable yet rooted notion of sexual identity. The ethical implications of sexual identity passing are considered in the context of eschatological images of social justice and within practical matters such as military service, leadership, and sexual harassment law.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kelby Harrison has a Ph.D. in philosophical ethics, gender and sexuality from Northwestern University. From 2010 to 2012 she was the social ethics post-doctoral fellow at Union Theological Seminary. She is the co-editor of Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed, an intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and intersubjective anthology on issues of sexual identity closeting and revelation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498511287
• ISBN 13: 9781498511285
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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