Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics
![]() 208 pp., 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9781647122270 () 208 pp., 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 9781647122287 () eBook ISBN: 9781647122294 E-Inspection Request E-Inspection April 2022 Sales Rights: World Moral Traditions series EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews |
Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics
A Feminist Christian Account
Karen Peterson-Iyer
A profound feminist Christian reframing of sexuality examines contemporary social practices and ethical sex Karen Peterson-Iyer is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. She is the author of Designer Children: Reconciling Genetic Technology, Feminism, and Christian Faith, as well as articles and chapters in sexual ethics, bioethics, and labor ethics. She holds a PhD from Yale University. David Cloutier, Kristin Heyer, and Andrea Vicini, SJ, Series Editors
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"Peterson-Iyer brings fresh eyes to the complex justice issues that sexual practices like sexting and sex work—and efforts to discourage them—raise for women's flourishing and moral agency. With characteristic conviction and care, she grapples with sexuality as it is, not as it ideally would be."—Cristina L. H. Traina, Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, Chair in Catholic Theology, Fordham University "Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Christian Account is an important book on urgent matters. Dr. Peterson-Iyer describes sexual flourishing as a new framework for evaluating practical, everyday moral questions about sexuality. Relational justice is at the center of this exciting construction of sexual ethics. A significant contribution to the field."—Emily Reimer-Barry, associate professor of Christian ethics, University of San Diego "Rooted in a robust anthropology and keenly attentive to social context and structural sin, Peterson-Iyer's justice-focused approach to Christian sexual ethics is nuanced and compelling. It acknowledges complexities, dares to keep the well-being of women and sexual minorities at the center, and calls us ever toward virtue as embodied, socially embedded persons. The work—especially the case studies—will spark lively, necessary conversation in college classrooms, across dinner tables, and within church communities."—Bridget Burke Ravizza, professor of theology and religious studies, St. Norbert College Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Sexual Flourishing in an Unjust World 1. Looking Back and Looking Forward 2. Moral Anthropology, Justice, and Sexual Ethics 3. Hookup Culture and Sexual Agency 4. Teen Sexting, Objectification, and Justice for Women 5. Commercial Sex, Well-Being, and the Rhetoric of Choice 6. Sex Trafficking, Rescue Narratives, and the Challenge of Solidarity Concluding Reflections Bibliography About the Author |