Leigh Ann Wheeler

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty shows how we came to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution, thanks to the work of ACLU leaders and attorneys who forged legal principles that advanced the sexual revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9780199754236
• ISBN-10: 0199754233
• Artikelnr.: 35482096

Autorenporträt

Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University and co-editor, Journal of Women's History

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Ch 1 "Where else but Greenwich Village?": Taking Sexual Liberties,
1910s-1920s
* Ch 2 "Queer business for Civil Liberties Union": Defending
Unconventional Speech about Sex, 1920s-1930s
* Ch 3 "Are you free to read, see, and hear?": Creating Consumer Rights
out of the First Amendment, 1940s-1950s
* Ch 4 "To be let alone in the bedroom": Expanding Sexual Rights
through Privacy, 1940s-1960s
* Ch 5 "To produce offspring without interference by the state": Making
Reproductive Freedom, 1960s-1970s
* Ch 6 "What's happening to sexual privacy?": Easing Access to Sexual
Expression, 1960s-1970s
* Ch 7 "Solutions must be found within civil libertarian guidelines":
Protecting against Rape and Sexual Harassment, 1970s-1990s
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index