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From state legislatures to the halls of Congress and the Supreme Court, from daily newspapers to popular magazines and television talk shows, Jakobsen and Pellegrini illustrate the intensity of America's obsession with sex in the name of values and the dangers it poses to some of our most basic freedoms.   Using a wide range of case studies, Love the Sin offers an insightful critique of the ways in which sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular are discussed and debated in the public arena. Additionally, the book sets forth constructive alternatives that highlight the vital links between sexual and religious freedom and expose the hazards of using religion as a justification for regulating sexuality.  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Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference suggests that these questions have proven so difficult for feminist and other progressive social movements because the contemporary politics of difference(s) or diversity fails to adequately articulate complexity. Without the ability to work with the complexity of inter-relation, the politics of diversity proves inadequate to power relations within and among differences, and devolves into liberal pluralism and its attendant diversity management. Because complexity is located in the norms which materialize social relations and the values which social movements produce, it is necessary to investigate and theorize both ethics and politics in order to create an agency adequate to working alliances.  Through historical case studies of how alliances work at particular moments in the histories of feminist, anti-racist, and queer social movements, the book addresses central questions in feminist ethics and politics: questions of agency and action, universalism and relativism, the production of norms and values and their implication in regulator discourses, the construction of social movements, of publics and counter-publics, and the workings of alliances. 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Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tuned in, however, they found Kennedy a younger, more vivacious, and more attractive choice than Nixon. Sexier. The political significance of Kennedy's telegenic sex appeal is now widely accepted – but taking sexual politics seriously is not. Janet R. Jakobsen examines how, for the last several decades, gender and sexuality have reappeared time and again at the center of political life, marked by a series of widely recognized issues and movements – women's liberation and gay liberation in the 1960s and '70s, the AIDS crisis and ACT UP in the '80s and '90s, welfare and immigration \"reform\" in the '90s, wars claiming to \"save women\" in the 2000s, and battles over health care in the 2010s, to recent demands for reproductive justice, trans liberation, and the explosive exposures of #MeToo.  Religion has been wound up in these political struggles, and blamed for not a little of the resistance to meaningful change in America political life. Jakobsen acknowledges that religion is a force to be reckoned with, but decisively breaks with the common sense that religion and sex are the fixed binary of American political life. She instead follows the kaleidoscopic ways in which sexual politics are embedded in social relations of all kinds – not only the intimate relations of love and family with which gender and sex are routinely associated, but also secularism, freedom, race, disability, capitalism, nation and state, housing and the environment.  In the midst of these obsessions, Jakobsen's promiscuous ethical imagination guides us forward. Drawing on examples from collaborative projects among activists, academics and artists, Jakobsen shows that sexual politics can contribute to building justice from the ground up. 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