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Mark D. Jordan

Mark D. Jordan is the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. His most recent books are Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault and Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas.

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Gender & Sexuality

Our Identities, Ourselves?

Adhering to a particular sexual or gender identity may mean abandoning the things that make us most unique. So why has identity become the default for talking about who we are and what we desire?

Mark D. Jordan

       

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