Collective Responsibility and Multiple Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Identities -- Racisms -- Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference -- Should Public Policy Be Class Conscious Rather Than Color Conscious? -- The Color-Blind Principle -- Study Questions -- Supplementary Readings -- PART VI GENDER ROLES AND MORALITY -- Gender and Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How? -- Intrinsic Inclinations: Explaining Gender and Sexual Diversity -- Domestic Violence Against Women and Autonomy -- The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage -- Re-Thinking Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriage -- Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism -- Love and (Polygamous) Marriage: A Liberal Case Against Polygamy -- Study Questions -- Supplementary Readings -- PART VII ABORTION -- On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion -- Why Abortion Is Immoral -- Sensationalized Philosophy: A Reply to Marquis's "Why Abortion Is Immoral"--When Prospective Parents Disagree -- The Problem of Coerced Abortion in China and Related Ethical Issues -- Contestation and Consensus: The Morality of Abortion in Japan -- The Classical Hindu View on Abortion and the Moral Status of the Unborn -- Study Questions -- Supplementary Readings -- PART VIII EUTHANASIA, SUSTAINING, AND ENDING LIFE -- Active and Passive Euthanasia -- The Intentional Termination of Life -- Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief -- Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia -- Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It -- Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- Confucian Ethic of Death with Dignity and Its Contemporary Relevance -- Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia -- Study Questions -- Supplementary Readings -- PART IX ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- Intensive Livestock Farming: Global Trends, Increased Environmental Concerns, and Ethical Solutions