"To Create a World Beyond Gender." Philosophies in the Sexual Revolution.

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Is it possible to achieve the things that the Sexual Revolution wants? Or is it just a bid for power? What is the history of the theories, and where do these ideas come from.

Scott is a professor of political science at Boise State University. He lives near Boise with his wife, Amy. They have five kids, one out of college and married, two in college, one senior in high school (Lumpy), and a sixth grader (Biscuit). Scott is also chairman of the board at a classical Christian school, the Ambrose School, which is in Meridian Idaho. He is author of Family Politics, the idea of marriage in modern political thought, David Hume’s Humanity, a book on Reconstruction, and a forthcoming book published by Baylor University Press entitled, Recovering Family Life: The Rolling Revolution and Its Limits, published later this summer (Lord willing!).

Resources:
Scott Yenor, The Form and Function of the American Family, National Affairs
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-form-and-function-of-the-american-family

“Sex, Gender, and the Origin of the Culture War”
https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/sex-gender-and-the-origin-the-culture-wars-intellectual-history

The Theology of the Body refers to a series of Wednesday audience talks that Pope St. John Paul II gave early in his pontificate. Those talks were collected into a book, which has appeared in 2 different editions. The first edition was just called "Theology of the Body." I'm not seeing it available for purchase on Amazon. I personally own a copy.

The second edition is called "Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body." It has an introduction by philosopher Michael Waldstein, in which he points out that the Theology of the Body is John Paul's response to the body-mind dualism of early modern French philosopher Rene DeCartes.
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Woman-He-Created-Them/dp/0819874213/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=theology+of+the+body&qid=1579816257&sr=8-3

There are numerous books that have "Theology of the Body" in the title, usually followed by "for teens" or "made simple" or something like that. Christopher West and Jason Evert would be reliable interpreters of John Paul's thought.
Dr. Yenor and I also mentioned Pope John Paul's book he wrote when he was still Karol Wojtyla before he was pope, "Love and Responsibility." This is also very good, and worth reading.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Responsibility-Karol-Wojtyla/dp/0898704456/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?cv_ct_cx=theology+of+the+body&keywords=theology+of+the+body&pd_rd_i=0898704456&pd_rd_r=bfd80a8d-d7be-490d-a403-0fcbf1aba00f&pd_rd_w=cchZX&pd_rd_wg=SRcmA&pf_rd_p=a6d018ad-f20b-46c9-8920-433972c7d9b7&pf_rd_r=VJVP8WYN48SRPAQW5XGD&psc=1&qid=1579816497&sr=1-1-dd5817a1-1ba7-46c2-8996-f96e7b0f409c

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