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143 n notes n Introduction: Where Do We Draw Our Lines, and Why? 1. Illustrated London News (May 5, 1928), from The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1986). 2. Stephanie Coontz, Marriage: A History (New York: Penguin, 2005), 282–83. 3. Dagmar Herzog, Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics (New York: Basic Books, 2008), xi. 4. Anthony Weston, A Practical Companion to Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1–2. 5. Ibid. 6. Christine E. Gudorf, Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1994), 2. 7. L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988 [rev. 2007]), 262. 8. Marvin M. Ellison, Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996). 9. Daniel C. Maguire, “The Shadow Side of the Homosexuality Debate,” in Homosexuality in the Priesthood and the Religious Life, ed. Jeannine Gramick (New York: Crossroad , 1989), 38–39. 10. Luke Timothy Johnson, “A Disembodied ‘Theology of the Body,’” in Human Sexuality in the Catholic Tradition, ed. Kieran Scott and Harold Daly Horell (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 114. chapter 1: Why Do We Have to Keep Talking about sex all the time? 1. Thomas Laqueur, “Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology ,” in The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 4. 2. Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sex,” in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993), 11. 3. Peggy Brick, “Toward a Positive Approach to Adolescent Sexuality,” SIECUS Report 17:5 (May–July 1989): 1. 144 | notes 4. James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1991), 52. 5. Rubin, “Thinking Sex,” 3–4. 6. Walter Brueggemann, “Voices of the Night against Justice,” in Walter Brueggemann, Sharon Parks, and Thomas H. Groome, To Act Justly, Love Tenderly, Walk Humbly: An Agenda for Ministers (New York: Paulist, 1986), 5. 7. Nelle Morton, The Journey Is Home (Boston: Beacon, 1985). 8. May Sarton, At Seventy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1984), 10. 9. Marvin M. Ellison, Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996), 2. 10. Thomas J. Gerschick, “The Body, Disability, and Sexuality,” in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays and Interviews, ed. Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, and Chet Meeks (New York: Routledge, 2007), 255. 11. Ibid. 12. Delores S. Williams, Sisters of the Wilderness (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1993), 71. 13. Miguel De La Torre, A Lily among the Thorns: Imagining a New Christian Sexuality (San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), 41 and 37. 14. John Boswell, “Homosexuality and Religious Life: A Historical Approach,” in Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1994), 362. 15. Ibid., 363. 16. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family (Boston: Beacon, 2000), 173. 17. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1991), 198. 18. John B. Cobb Jr., Matters of Life and Death (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1991), 94. 19. James B. Nelson, Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian Theology (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1978), esp. chapters 3–4. 20. Vern L. Bullough, “Christianity and Sexuality,” in Religion and Sexual Health: Ethical, Theological, and Clinical Perspectives, ed. Ronald M. Green (Boston: Kluwer Academic , 1992), 15. 21. Mariana Valverde, Sex, Power, and Pleasure (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1985), 10. 22. Cobb, Matters of Life and Death, 97. 23. Rosemary Radford Ruether, “Homophobia, Heterosexism, and Pastoral Practice,” in Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection, ed. James B. Nelson and Sandra P. Longfellow (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1994), 387–96. 24. Valverde, Sex, Power, and Pleasure, 19. 25. Christine E. Gudorf, Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1994), 1 and 2. 26. Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family (New York: Basic Books, 1989), 135. 27. Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1990). 28. Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic, 2000). 29. Christine E. Gudorf, “The Erosion of Sexual Dimorphism: Challenges to Religion and Religious Ethics...