Sex and reason / / Richard A. Posner
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| Autore: |
Posner Richard A
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| Titolo: |
Sex and reason / / Richard A. Posner
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (vii, 458 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 306.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sex - Economic aspects |
| Sex customs | |
| Sex and law | |
| Rationalism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE The History of Sexuality -- CHAPTER ONE Theoretical Sexology -- CHAPTER TWO Autres Temps~ Autres Moeurs -- CHAPTER THREE Sexuality and Law -- PART TWO A Theory of Sexuality -- CHAPTER FOUR The Biology of Sex -- CHAPTER FIVE Sex and Rationality -- CHAPTER SIX The History of Sexuality from the Perspective ofEconomics -- CHAPTER SEVEN Optimal Regulation of Sexuality -- CHAPTER EIGHT Moral Theories of Sexuality -- PART THREE The Regulation of Sexuality -- CHAPTER NINE Marriage and the Channeling of Sex -- CHAPTER TEN The Control of Pregnancy -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Homosexuality: The Policy Questions -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Sexual Revolution in the Courts -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Erotic Art, Pornography, and Nudity -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Coercive Sex -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Separating Reproduction from Sex -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Sexual drives are rooted in biology, but we don't act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived. Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today's Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M. The first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls, Posner's rational choice theory surprises, explains, predicts, and totally absorbs. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sex and reason |
| ISBN: | 0-674-04225-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818295403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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