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Mark D. Jordan is the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research 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.
Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it?
Adhering to a particular sexual or gender identity may mean abandoning the things that make us most unique.
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