Dishonorable passions
Subtitle: sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003
By: William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780670018628
Subjects: Sodomy -- United States -- History; Sodomy -- United States -- Cases; Sex crimes -- United States -- History; Sex and law -- United States -- History
Genres: Cases.; History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American body politics and the crime against nature, 1861-81; title: From the sodomite to the homosexual, 1881-1935; title: The anti-homosexual Kulturkampf, 1935-61; title: The case(s) against the crime against nature, 1935-61; title: Homo equality and sodomy reform, 1961-69; title: The crime against nature after Stonewall, 1969-75; title: Gay civil rights and a new politics of preservation, 1975-86; title: The crime against nature on trial, Bowers v. Hardwick,1986; title: The Lambda-ACLU campaign to overrule Bowers, 1986-2003; title: Sodomy law at the Alamo, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003; title: State regulation of sexuality after Lawrence v. Texas, 2003-05; title: Beyond Whitman and Comstock: Bowers and Hardwick revisited.