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42. See Wreen, "What's Really Wrong with Adultery?," 180.

43. For example, see G. E. M. Anscombe, "Modern Moral Philosophy,"
Philosophy
33 (1958): 119; Alasdair MacIntyre,
After Virtue
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981); Bernard Williams, "Persons, Character, and Morality," in his
Moral Luck
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.) For some contemporary feminist criticism of a traditional, rights-based ethic, see Lawrence Blum,
Friendship, Altruism and Morality
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980), and John Hardwig, "Should Women Think in Terms of Rights?," in
Feminism and Political Theory
, ed. Cass R. Sunstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 5367. For a reevaluation of the place of Kantian ethics in discussions of feminist sexual ethics, see Barbara Herman, "Could It Be Worth Thinking about Kant on

Page 230

Sex and Marriage?," in
A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity
(Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993), 4967.

44. Robert C. Solomon, "The Virtue of (Erotic) Love," in Solomon and Higgins,
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love
, 499.

45. Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex
, 12830, 146; Rapaport, "On the Future of Love;" 37680.

46. Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex
, 131.

47. Steinbock, "Adultery," 191.

48. See Roger Scruton,
Sexual Desire
(New York: Free Press, 1986), 16769; Søren Kierkegaard, "The Immediate Stages of the Erotic," in
Either/Or
, vol. 1, trans. David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944, 1959), 86102.

49. Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex
, 13233, 144, 146.

50. Robert C. Solomon, "Love and Feminism," in Baker and Elliston,
Philosophy and Sex
(1984), 56.

51. Ibid., 56, 63; also see Solomon, "The Virtue of (Erotic) Love," 506, 513.

52. Solomon, "Love and Feminism," 56; also see 5455.

53. Ibid., 66.

54. Ibid., 64.

55. Ibid., 64, 65.