How Sex Became a Civil Liberty

Name: How Sex Became a Civil Liberty
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ISBN: 9780199754236

ISBN-10: 0199754233

ISBN-13: 9780199754236

Edition: 2012

Authors: Leigh Ann Wheeler

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Sexual revolutions have transformed American culture, society, and politics--not to mention individual lives--throughout the twentieth century. Sex radicals challenged Victorian restraint and championed sexual liberation. In the process, they confronted a tightly knit web of legal restrictions on sexual expression and conduct designed to keep sex out of the public realm and to allow public officials to police sex in private spaces. The American Civil Liberties Union has stood at the center of these battles, using the Constitution to create an expansive body of sexual rights that helped lay the old order to rest.How Sex Became a Civil Libertyis the first book to show how ACLU leaders and…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.45" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Leigh Ann Wheeler is an assistant professor of history at Bowling Green State University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



'Where Else but Greenwich Village?': Taking Sexual Liberties, 1910s-1920s



'Queer Business for the Civil Liberties Union': Defending Unconventional Speech about Sex, 1920s-1930s



'Are You Free to Read, See, and Hear?': Creating Consumer Rights out of the First Amendment, 1940s-1960s



'To Be Let Alone in the Bedroom': Expanding Sexual Rights through Privacy, 1940s-1960s



'To Produce Offspring without Interference by the State': Making Reproductive Freedom, 1960s-1970s



'What's Happening to Sexual Privacy?': Easing Access to Sexual Expression, 1960s-1970s



'Solutions Must Be Found within Civil Libertarian Guidelines': Protecting against Rape and Sexual Harassment, 1970s-1990s


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index