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Article: Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in An Age of Uncertainty.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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In Invented Moralities Jeffrey Weeks questions the social formation of moralities. For Weeks, a noted English scholar of sexual politics, sexuality is central to the social construction of morality and current moral disputes. In this book he deepens a project initially sketched in Sexuality and Its Discontents (1985), which not only contained a powerful critique of sexual knowledge but also developed a radical pluralist approach to sexual disputes.
Weeks does a superb job of excavating how questions of sexuality are central to today's moral debates and how solutions to moral/ethical dilemmas are being developed in the practices of sexual political movements and in ...