About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

17 UCLA Women's L.J. 1 (2008)
The Dignity of Sex

handle is hein.journals/uclawo17 and id is 5 raw text is: ARTICLES THE DIGNITY OF SEX Libby Adlert I. INTRODUCTION ..................................... 2 II. Two STRANDS OF MEANING ....................... 4 A . Ancient Sources ................................ 5 B. Conceptual Changes Around the Time of the Enlightenm ent .................................. 8 C. The Aftermath of Fascism in Europe ........... 10 D. Revisiting the Key Points in the Conventional N arrative ....................................... 11 III. THE SEX CASES .................................... 15 IV. EXILING SHAME ...................................... 29 A . A loneness ...................................... 31 B . Intim acy ....................................... 34 C. A nim ality ...................................... 35 D . N eed ........................................... 38 E. The Other Side of the Dignity Coin ............ 39 V. DIGNITY, RATIONALITY, AND THE GHOST OF FASCISM .............................................. 42 VI. BRINGING THE CRITIQUE BACK TO SEX ........... 49 VII. CONCLUSION ......................................... 52 t Professor of Law, Northeastern University. I received helpful feedback from Dan Danielsen, Wendy Parmet, Philomila Tsoukala, Dan Williams, Lucy Wil- liams, and members of the Human Rights Interest Group at Northeastern Univer- sity School of Law, for which I am grateful. Thanks also to Jack Cushman and Kate Pascuzzi for valuable research assistance. Finally, Janet Halley gave generously of her customary and utterly indispensable insight and comradeship, for which she has my unending thanks.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most