Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing

Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing

Harrison, Kelby

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1498511287
ISBN13: 9781498511285
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 26 2015
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Sexual Deceit is an extended ethical analysis of the phenomenon of sexual identity passing -- i.e. socially presenting as X, when one understands oneself as Y, where the variables represent any contemporary sexual identity -- alongside identity passing in the contexts of race, gender, and briefly, religion and class. The analysis of passing utilizes and challenges traditional moral understandings of identity falsification, complicating our understandings of moral obligations under systemic oppression. Tracing the intervention of social construction theory on contemporary political understandings of LGBT communities and activism, Sexual Deceit argues against social construction models of identity -- notably performativity, promulgated by the work of Judith Butler and consumed and repeated by many scholars and theory educated queer people. A new model of identity is constructed, based on a phenomenological concept of style that provides for a socially adjustable yet rooted notion of sexual identity. The ethical implications of sexual identity passing are considered in the context of eschatological images of social justice and within practical matters such as military service, leadership, and sexual harassment law.

Also in

Philosophy

View All