From: "Rebecca Luckhurst" <rebecca-AT-luckdene.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: sexual ethics
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:10:54 -0000


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Thanks again for your help - actually I was thinking of Anthony Giddens in The Transformation of Intimacy who believes that many of the recent(ish) changes in the way people conduct their personal relationships have the potential to have a more widespread 'democratising' influence. I personally disagree with almost every word he says on the subject, but he's still an interesting read, and his enthusiasm for his subject is infectious, even if I don't find his ideas so convincing! 

Rebecca.


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From: mthrond-AT-hotmail.com <mthrond-AT-hotmail.com>
To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: 19 February 1999 00:48
Subject: Re: sexual ethics


>Have you looked at Christopher Lasch's Culture of Narcissism?  Even if
>it isn't authoritative (either from a Marxist or Freudian standpoint),
>strictly historical, or Foucauldian (although Lasch, I hear, was for a
>time quite interested in F.) it's a funny and pithy slash through the
>"self-help" mentality.  But if you read it, also catch Richard
>Hofstadter's chapter in The American Political Tradition on the
>Self-Help Ideology of Abraham Lincoln.  Liberation, you say?  I assume
>you are familiar with N.O. Brown and Marcuse--neither of whom, in my
>book, employed the term as loosely as one must to call those overpriced 
>rags "liberating."  Happy hunting!
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