News and Events
Prof. Brooten participates in teleconference with the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) to discuss her book Beyond Slavery (Nov. 2011)
U.S. Representative Bobby Rush mentions the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project in an article for the Huffington Post (Aug. 2011)
Brandeis NOW article features Prof. Brooten's research on early enslaved women (Sep. 2011)
Beyond Slavery
Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies
Edited by Bernadette J. Brooten, with the editorial assistance of Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Palgrave, 358 pages.
Read the introduction to Beyond Slavery
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The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation and Brandeis University.
Welcome to the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project
At the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, we see the legacy of slavery as the greatest obstacle to creating sexual ethics that are based on the full human dignity of all persons. We envision an ethic of sexuality rooted in freedom, mutuality, consent, responsibility, and female (as well as male) pleasure, and we are working to make that vision reality.
Our goal is to provide religious communities and society at large with the knowledge and framework needed to recognize and acknowledge past collaboration in slavery; to engage in restorative justice for slavery; and to create sexual ethics untainted by slave-holding values.
In these pages you can explore sexual ethics within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and you can learn how the toleration of slavery in the early teachings of these religions affects the lives of women today.