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17 UCLA Women's L.J. 1 (2008)
The Dignity of Sex

handle is hein.journals/uclawo17 and id is 5 raw text is: ARTICLES THE DIGNITY OF SEX Libby Adlert I. INTRODUCTION ..................................... 2 II. Two STRANDS OF MEANING ....................... 4 A . Ancient Sources ................................ 5 B. Conceptual Changes Around the Time of the Enlightenm ent .................................. 8 C. The Aftermath of Fascism in Europe ........... 10 D. Revisiting the Key Points in the Conventional N arrative ....................................... 11 III. THE SEX CASES .................................... 15 IV. EXILING SHAME ...................................... 29 A . A loneness ...................................... 31 B . Intim acy ....................................... 34 C. A nim ality ...................................... 35 D . N eed ........................................... 38 E. The Other Side of the Dignity Coin ............ 39 V. DIGNITY, RATIONALITY, AND THE GHOST OF FASCISM .............................................. 42 VI. BRINGING THE CRITIQUE BACK TO SEX ........... 49 VII. CONCLUSION ......................................... 52 t Professor of Law, Northeastern University. I received helpful feedback from Dan Danielsen, Wendy Parmet, Philomila Tsoukala, Dan Williams, Lucy Wil- liams, and members of the Human Rights Interest Group at Northeastern Univer- sity School of Law, for which I am grateful. Thanks also to Jack Cushman and Kate Pascuzzi for valuable research assistance. Finally, Janet Halley gave generously of her customary and utterly indispensable insight and comradeship, for which she has my unending thanks.