Ethical Issues & Debates

At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy ove...

Sex Matters addresses a cluster of related questions that arise from the conflict of interests between rights based on sex and rights based on gend...

Books on aspects of Islamophobia have been proliferating in the past decade but so are the instances of this phenomenon worldwide. The diverse aspe...

Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, cos...

Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, cos...

Shaheed Nick Mohammed's Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders provides a unique perspective on the concept o...

Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredib...

Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency....

Although nudity is something that everyone has experience with, public nudity is still largely considered taboo. Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of ...

In recent years hundreds of high-profile ‘free speech’ incidents have rocked US college campuses. Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and oth...

This edited volume brings together scholars positioned in and outside of China, including former Chinese journalists, in a comprehensive and in-dep...

This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution ...

This edited volume illuminates critical research issues through the particular lens of homelessness, bringing together some of the leading scholars...

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the contemporary discussion on free will and on moral prob...

The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving r...

Books on aspects of Islamophobia have been proliferating in the past decade but so are the instances of this phenomenon worldwide. The diverse aspe...

Bioethics tells a heroic story about its origins and purpose. The impetus for its contemporary development can be traced to concern about widesprea...

Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech...

Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody ...

In the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video. Smutty Little Movies traces this change and examines ...

New York and New Jersey maintain almost identical laws dealing with abortion, but the process for developing those laws differed in each state. Cou...

As many critics and theorists have noted, non-pornographic films, documentaries, and quality television series have increasingly included explicit ...

Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service worker...