Professor Margaret A. Farley will discuss her recent book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics which proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships.

She is the author or co-editor of seven books and hundreds of articles and book chapters and is the recipient of a variety of fellowships and awards, including the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her book, Just Love.

Professor Farley was a founding member of Yale-New Haven Hospital's Bioethics Committee and served for eight years as co-director of the Yale University Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center. She is currently co-director of the All-Africa Conference: Sister to Sister, which facilitates responses to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

Click book cover for Kresge Library's catalog record for this title.

Full-text articles by Professor Farley, and book reviews on her works and works about her (available through Kresge Library):

Farley, M. A. (1993). A feminist version of respect for persons. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 9(1-2), 183-199.

Farley, M. A. (2004). Partnership in hope: gender, faith, and responses to HIV/AIDS. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 20(1), 133-149.

Nothwehr, D. M. (2009). [Review of the book A just and true love: Feminism at the frontiers of theological ethics - Essays in honor of Margaret A. Farley]. Theological Studies, 70(1), 231-234.

Traina, C. L. H. (2007). [Review of the book Just love: A framework for Christian sexual ethics, by Margaret A. Farley]. Theological Studies, 68(3), 712-714.

Yeager, D. M. (2009). [Review of the book Just love: A framework for Christian sexual ethics, by Margaret A. Farley]. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 77(3), 751-755.

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College of Arts and Sciences, Women and Gender Studies, and the Sociology and Anthropology Department

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