How sex became a civil liberty
By: Leigh Ann Wheeler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780199754236
Subjects: Sex; Sexual rights; History
Description: '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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Where else but Greenwich Village?": taking sexual liberties, 1910s-1920s; title: "Queer business for the civil liberties union": defending unconventional speech about sex, 1920s-1930s; title: "Are you free to read, see, and hear?": creating consumer rights out of the First Amendment, 1940s-1960s; title: "To be let alone in the bedroom": expanding sexual rights through privacy, 1940s-1960s; title: "To produce offspring without interference by the state": making reproductive freedom, 1960s-1970s; title: "What's happening to sexual privacy?": easing access to sexual expression, 1960s-1970s; title: "Solutions must be found within civil libertarian guidelines": protecting against rape and sexual harassment, 1970s-1990s.