Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between
feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new,
post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire,
connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists'
politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics
that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from
both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following
Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce
Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual
difference.
Through this theoretical lens, Huffer examines everyday
experiences of ethical connection and failure connected to sex,
including queer sexual practices, sodomy laws, interracial love,
pornography, and work-life balance. Her approach complicates sexual
identities while challenging the epistemological foundations of
subjectivity. She rethinks ethics "beyond good and evil" without
underestimating, as some queer theorists have done, the persistence
of what Foucault calls the "catastrophe" of morality. Elaborating a
thinking-feeling ethics of the other, Huffer encourages
contemporary intellectuals to reshape sexual morality from within,
defining an ethical space that is both poetically suggestive and
politically relevant, both conceptually daring and grounded in
common sexual experience.
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