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Margaret A. Farley, the Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School
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Sept. 24 Woods Lecture: Gender, Sexuality and Ethics

September 18, 2009

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MACOMB, IL - - Margaret A. Farley, the Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School, will present the 23rd Annual Mary Olive Woods Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 in the Western Illinois University Union Heritage Room. The lecture is open free to the public.

Farley's lecture topic, "Gender, Sexuality and Ethics: New Perspectives," will cover questions in sexual ethics, along with analyses of the historical background for changes in 21st century views of sexual relationships and activities. She will offer a framework for contemporary religious and secular sexual ethics and will present relevant issues within the topics.

Farley is a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America, as well as a published author and a recipient of 11 honorary degrees. She is the author or editor of six books, and she has published more than 80 articles and chapters of books on medical ethics, sexual ethics, social ethics, historical theological ethics, ethics and spirituality and feminist ethics. Farley also directs and co-directs two projects relating to women, theology and response to HIV/AIDS in Africa.

The annual Woods Lecture is sponsored by Western's philosophy and religious studies department, in conjunction with the 1987 trust fund of Mary Olive Woods. In addition to the yearly lecture presentation, the Woods fund provides student scholarships to deserving philosophy majors and religious studies majors and minors during the fall and spring semesters.

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