 | Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children--in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, Erotic Attunement probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina is associate professor of religious studies at Northwestern University and the author of Feminist Ethics and Natural Law: The End of the Anathemas . |
