Wild Constraint
The Case for Chastity
This item is a print on demand title and will be dispatched in 1-3 weeks.
Paperback / softback
£15.99
QTY
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826487124
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 11/12/2008
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
In A Wild Constraint: The Case for Chastity, Taylor addresses the provocative subject of celibacy. Too often considered an exclusively religious option, celibacy has been reclaimed by some feminists and sociologists over the last 20 years as a radical alternative in secular society to the liberal sexual lifestyle. What, after all, is sexual liberation when so often the outcome is pain and social chaos? In the context of promiscuity, sexual abuse and confusion, celibacy can herald a different sexual freedom. Jenny Taylor draws on personal experience and interviews with men and women of all ages to demonstrate the impact of the sexual revolution and to make a case for celibacy. She argues that celibacy is a viable alternative that deserves to be taken seriously and challenges the church to speak out for sexual abstinence with confidence and certainty.
Preface; 1 The State We're In; 2 In the Image of Dog: Freud and his Disciples; 3 Sex and the Destruction of Childhood; 4 Virtue and the Vamp: Women as Culture Carriers; 5 The Church's Turn Against Chastity; 6 Alone Again - Naturally; 7 Sexuality for Society; 8 Surviving Chastity; Appendix: Contemplative exercises from The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser SJ.; Selected Bibliography.
"The social dimension and implications of individual sexuality...[are] carefully developed and powerfully stated."--Sanford Lakoff