Sexual injustice, Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe, Marc Stein
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Sexual injustice, Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe, Marc Stein
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Sexual injustice
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Marc Stein
Sub title
Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe
Summary
"The U.S. Supreme Court of the 1960s and 1970s is typically celebrated by liberals and condemned by conservatives for its rulings on abortion, birth control, and other sexual matters. In this new work, historian Marc Stein demonstrates convincingly that both sides have it wrong. Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases, Stein examines the more liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Fanny Hill, Loving, Eisenstadt, and Roe alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in BoutilierIn the same era in which the Court recognized special marital, reproductive, and heterosexual rights and privileges, it also upheld an immigration statute that classified homosexuals as "psychopathic personalities." How, then, did Americans come to believe that the Court supported the sexual revolution? Stein shows that a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality. Creatively researched and persuasively argued, this book not only provides the first in-depth account of Boutilier, one of the Court's earliest gay rights cases, but also will change the way we think about the Supreme Court and the sexual revolution."--pub. desc
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- pt. 1. Decisions and doctrines -- Liberalization's limits from Griswold to Roe -- Consistent conservatism in Boutilier -- pt. 2. Activists and advocates -- Liberalization's lawyers -- Boutilier's defenders -- Boutilier's defense -- pt. 3. Reading and readers -- Remembering Griswold to Roe -- Forgetting Boutilier -- Epilogue
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Subject
- Constitutional law
- Gay rights
- Homosexuality + Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases
- Gays + Legal status, laws, etc -- United States -- Cases
- Trials, litigation, etc
- Gays + Legal status, laws, etc
- Sex and law -- United States -- Cases
- Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases
- Homosexuality + Law and legislation
- Sex and law
- United States
- Gay rights -- United States -- Cases
Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject12
- Constitutional law
- Gay rights
- Homosexuality + Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases
- Gays + Legal status, laws, etc -- United States -- Cases
- Trials, litigation, etc
- Gays + Legal status, laws, etc
- Sex and law -- United States -- Cases
- Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases
- Homosexuality + Law and legislation
- Sex and law
- United States
- Gay rights -- United States -- Cases