Just love: a framework for Christian sexual ethics

This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists propses a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and sexuality, and finally delineates the justice framework for sexual ethics. Though "Just Love's" particular focus is Christian sexual ethics, Farley's framework is broad enough to have relevance for multiple traditions. Also covered are specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships, marriage and family, divorce and second marriage, celibacy, and sex and its negativities -- Publisher description.

Opening the questions -- Finding the way -- Why we are here -- New maps -- Problems with the terrain -- The task -- The questions and their past -- Sex, morality, and history : theories of interpretation -- Michel Foucault : the historical constitution of desire -- Catherine MacKinnon : historical silences/gendered violence -- Evolutionary histories : sexuality and change -- Sexual ethics in the west : historical perspective -- Sexuality in antiquity : the legacy of Greece and Rome -- Judaism : sexuality, morality, and religion -- Christian traditions -- Secular paths : philosophical developments, medical influences -- From the past to the present -- Difficult crossings : diverse traditions -- Cross-cultural perspectives : importance for sexual ethics -- Possibilities of cross-cultural and interreligious awareness -- Obstacles to the search for alternative perspectives -- Colonialist research and its postcolonial critics -- The lessons of "orientalism'' -- Lessons for sexual ethics -- Pre-modern islands of the South Seas -- African cultures -- Sexuality and community -- Gender, marriage, and family -- New interpreters and critics : sustainable African sexualities -- Kamasutra : Hi…