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    This volume collects together significant writings in the debate about the rights of sexual minorities. The topics covered include the meaning and importance of sexual freedom, gender roles, marriage and other significant partnerships, child care and adoption, the criminal law, employment, and expression and pornography. The essays reflect a variety of perspectives and seek to relate arguments about sexual orientation and rights to broader debates within feminist theory.
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    Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender: A Critique of New Natural Law
    with David A. J. Richards
    Cambridge University Press. 2007.
    Legal theorists are familiar with John Finnis's book Natural Law and Natural Rights, but usually overlook his interventions in US constitutional debates and his membership of a group of conservative Catholic thinkers, the 'new natural lawyers', led by theologian Germain Grisez. In fact, Finnis has repeatedly advocated conservative positions concerning lesbian and gay rights, contraception and abortion, and his substantive moral theory derives from Grisez. Bamforth and Richards provide a detailed…Read more
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    Sex Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2005.
    The 2002 volume of the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty Lectures series. This volume seeks to explore the role and limitations of ideas of human rights in the area of gender and sexuality; in particular, when considering the social position of women, gay men, trans-gendered and transsexual persons. The authors are internationally distinguished writers from the areas of literature, social theory, law, and journalism.