Leigh Ann Wheeler

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty

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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: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780190206529
• ISBN-10: 0190206527
• Artikelnr.: 47863412

Autorenporträt

Leigh Ann Wheeler is Professor of History at Binghamton University. She is co-editor of the Journal of Women's History and the author of Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873-1935.

Inhaltsangabe

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