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Sex, love, and gender : a Kantian theory / Helga Varden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varden, Helga, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Sex--Philosophy.
- Sex.
- Love--Philosophy.
- Love.
- Human rights--Philosophy.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 337 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Sex, love, & gender
- Kantian theory
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Helga Varden rethinks Kant's work on human nature to make space for sex, love, and gender within his moral account of freedom. She shows how Kant's philosophy provides us with resources to appreciate and value the diversity of human ways of loving and the existential importance of our embodied, social selves.
- Contents:
- Sexual and affectionate love : happiness and moral responsibility
- Kant and women
- Kant on sex. Reconsidered
- Kant on sexual violence and oppression
- The innate right to freedom : abortion, sodomy, and obscenity laws
- Private right : marriage and trade in sexual services
- Public right : systemic justice.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 10, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-185062-4
- 0-19-254209-5
- 0-19-254210-9
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