Just Love

Margaret A. Farley holds the Gilbert L. Stark Chair in Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School, USA, where she has taught since 1971. She is also a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America.

"'This is an excellent work by a leading Roman Catholic feminist and ethicist, written with flair, clarity, and absence of jargon. The many changing circumstances surrounding sexuality are well described. The influence of Foucault and Freud is critically introduced. The Christian traditions of thinking abut sex, and their indebtedness to Graeco-Roman assumptions, are helpfully summarised.' Adrian Thatcher, Church Times, February 2007 "The double entendre of the title, Just Love, is only the start of an excellent book. Margaret Farley examines the meaning of human sexuality and how this meaning can be incorporated into what she terms" a moral view of human and Christian life. The marvel of the book is that she has managed in just 300 pages to cover so much ground and do it so well. Church of England Newspaper"

• 1.Opening the Questions; 2.The Questions and Their Past; 3.Difficult Crossings: Diverse Traditions; 4.Constructing and Ethic; 5.Same-Sex Relationships; 6.Marriage and Family; 7.Celibacy; 8.Sex and the Potential for Violence; 9.Just Love: A Sexual Ethic Revisited.