Gendered Purity and Embodied Sexual Flourishing: Moral Agency, Development, and Prudence

Autor:	Doris M. Kieser
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Virtue business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Flourishing Religious studies Agency (philosophy) Environmental ethics Prudence Human sexuality Morality Gender Studies Moral agency Sociology business Social psychology media_common Reproductive health
Zdroj:	Theology & Sexuality. 20:108-128
ISSN:	1745-5170 1355-8358
DOI:	10.1179/1355835815z.00000000045
Popis:	Current popular accounts of sexual morality for adolescents based simply on purity or self-determination cannot adequately anchor a Christian sexual ethic, although positions based on both notions hope to facilitate sexual health among young females. Here I critique both popular Christian purity movements and a popular feminist critique of these purity movements (based upon self-determination) and suggest the virtue of prudence as a corrective. Situated within the Catholic theological tradition, prudence (practical wisdom) acknowledges the process of human moral and sexual development and is robust enough to negotiate the concrete complexities of sexual activity and the social realities in which such activity takes place. Further, it honours an embodied sense of female sexual self-determination: females as moral agents directed towards sexual flourishing.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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