The Philosophy of Love and Sex

Carol Hay is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusett LowellClancy Martin is a Canadian philosopher at the University of Missouri - Kansas City

The authors' willingness to step out of the philosophy bubble, while still offering a solid grounding in the stand bys of the field, is a welcome and, I think, needed change".

• PART ONE. LOVE I. What is Love? 1. Thomas Merton, <"Love and Need: Is Love a Package or a Message?> " 2. Plato, Symposium (selections) 3. Stendhal, <"Love as Crystallization> " 4. Irving Singer, <"Appraisal and Bestowal> " 5. Mandy Len Catron, <"To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This> " 6. Robert Nozick, <"Love's Bond> " 7. Edith Gwendolyn Nally. <"The Case for Platonic Love> " 8. Raja Rosenhagen, <"Iris Murdoch on Love as Just Attention> " 9. Simon May, <"Love as Perfect Friendship: Aristotle> " 10. Clancy Martin, Love & Lies (selections) 11. Pope Francis, <"Amoris Laetitia> " (<"The Joy of Love> ") II. The Moral & Political Implications of Love: Marriage & Family Marriage 12. Emma Goldman, <"Marriage and Love> " 13. Mary Lyndon Shanley, <"Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women> " 14. James Conlon, <"Why Lovers Can't be Friends> " 15. Carole Pateman, <"Feminism and the Marriage Contract> " 16. Elizabeth Brake, <"Minimal Marriage: What Political Liberalism Implies for Marriage Law> " 17. Claudia Card, <"Against Marriage and Motherhood> " 18. Charles Mills, <"Do Black Men have a Moral Duty to Marry Black Women?> " 19. John Corvino, <"Man on Man, Man on Dog, or Whatever the Case May Be> " 20. Elizabeth Emens, <"Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence> " The Family 21. Charlotte Witt, <"A Critique of the Bionormative Concept of the Family> " 22. Jane English, <"What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?> " PART TWO. SEX I. What is Sex? 23. Greta Christina, <"Are We Having Sex Now, or What?> " 24. Alan Goldman, <"Plain Sex> " 25. Augustine, Confessions and On Christian Doctrine (selections) 26. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (selections) 27. Gloria Anzaldua, <"La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness> " 28. Talia Mae Bettcher, <"When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach Us About Sexual Orientation> " 29. Elizabeth Grosz, <"Refiguring Lesbian Desire> " II. The Moral and Political Implications of Sex I. Mortal Bodies: Discussions of Sex, Consent, & Violence 30. Vera Bergelson, <"The Meaning of Consent> " 31. Robin West, <"The Harms of Consensual Sex> " 32. Ann J. Cahill, <"Feminist Theories of Rape: Sex or Violence?> " 33. Bonnie Mann, <"Creepers, Flirts, Heroes, and Allies: Four Theses on Men and Sexual Harassment> " 34. Evangelia Papadaki, <"Sexual Objectification: From Kant to Contemporary Feminism> " 35. Carol Hay, <"The Obligation to Resist Oppression> " 36. Jordan Pascoe, <"Kant and Kinky Sex> " 37. Sandra Lee Bartky, <"Feminine Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation> " II. Bodies for Sale: Pornography & Sex Work 38. Debra Satz, <"Markets in Women's Sexual Labor> " 39. Martha Nussbaum, <" 'Whether From Reason Or Prejudice> "': Taking Money For Bodily Services> " 40. Lori Watson, <"Why Sex Work Isn't Work> " 41. Catharine MacKinnon, <"Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech> " 42. Gloria Steinem, <"Erotica and Pornography: A Clear and Present Difference> " 43. Nancy Bauer, <"Pornutopia> " III. Non-normative Bodies: Discussions of Race, LGBTQ, & Disability 44. Kimberlé Crenshaw, <"Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew> " 45. bell hooks, <"Reflections on Race and Sex> " 46. Judith Butler, <"Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality> " 47. Ivan Coyote, <"Fear and Loathing in Public Bathrooms, or How I Learned to Hold My Pee> " 48. Tobin Siebers, <"A Sexual Culture for Disabled People> " 49. Jennifer Bartlett, <"Longing for the Male Gaze> "