| Containing uncertainty: sexual values and citizenship. | |
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PMID: 17287195 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This essay reflects on one dimension of the challenge of being a queer ethicist. Can we have norms/values without liberal assumptions that might undo the important contributions of queer theory? The reemergence of appeals to "citizenship" in lbgt and queer debates serves as illustrations of this question. Reading Weeks's Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty(1995), while considering various scholars who have engaged the issue of sexual citizenship since, enables me to illustrate some of the issues that emerge around ethics and queerness at this particular moment. My argument is that attempts to offer constructive ethical engagement in the end often contain challenges rather than successfully address them. Critically examining Weeks's intervention into what he sees as our "loss" of moral authority and ethical concerns to the right wing is helpful for queer ethical conversations that consider available theoretical and philosophical models of claiming citizenship as a way of claiming values in uncertain times. Weeks (1995; 1998), Richardson (2000), Bell and Binnie (2000), and Phelan (2001) provides helpful guides to the struggle with tensions that faces us in lbgt/queer debates of citizenship. |
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Authors:
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Claudia Schippert |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of homosexuality Volume: 52 ISSN: 0091-8369 ISO Abbreviation: J Homosex Publication Date: 2006 |
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Created Date: 2007-02-08 Completed Date: 2007-03-08 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7502386 Medline TA: J Homosex Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 285-307 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida, 411 G Colbourn Hall, Orlando, FL 32816-1352, USA. cschippe@mail.ucf.edu |
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Female Homosexuality* / ethics Humans Male Morals Politics Social Values* |
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