Over at the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar writes about the recently published Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi.
Posts Tagged ‘sex’
September 26th, 2011
Secularism in Antebellum America
posted by Jonathan VanAntwerpenForthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, a “pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America” by John Lardas Modern, contributing editor at The Immanent Frame and co-curator (with Kathryn Lofton) of the recently launched Frequencies.
April 20th, 2010
Lecture: Michael Warner on “Sex and Secularity” at NYU
posted by Charles GelmanOn Thursday evening, Michael Warner will give the annual LeBoff Lecture at New York University, for which he will draw on his ongoing work on secularism in antebellum America. The lecture, entitled “Sex and Secularity,” will be hosted by NYU’s Council for Media and Culture. Details are available here.
December 19th, 2007
Sex & aggression
posted by Jimmy Casas Klausen
I want to raise some questions about Taylor’s account of “our moral landscape” after the mainstreaming of the sexual revolution in the 1960s. Our moral landscape has indeed changed—that is undeniable—and yet, in Taylor’s hands, the cartography of that moral landscape appears all too familiar, and this is so because he does not take—indeed historically has not taken—the challenge of post-Nietzscheanism seriously.
December 13th, 2007
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
posted by Elizabeth PovinelliSo what’s the problem? What’s the ethical crisis? For Taylor it is this: sexuality cannot carry the burden of the enormous demands placed on it by those who would see its flourishing or repression as the foundation of all ethical, social, spiritual, and subjective goods.
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