Sexual injustice : Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe / Marc Stein
- Author
- Stein, Marc
- Published
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages)
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Liberalization's limits from Griswold to Roe -- Consistent conservatism in Boutilier -- Liberalization's lawyers -- Boutilier's defenders -- Boutilier's defense -- Remembering Griswold to Roe -- Forgetting Boutilier -- Epilogue.
- 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 Boutilier.
- Subject(s)
- United States. Supreme Court
- États-Unis. Supreme Court
- Constitutional law—United States—Cases
- Sex and law—United States—Cases
- Gay people—Legal status, laws, etc—United States—Cases
- Sexualité et droit—États-Unis—Jurisprudence
- LAW—Constitutional
- LAW—Public
- Constitutional law
- Gay people—Legal status, laws, etc
- Sex and law
- United States
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780807899373 (electronic bk.)
0807899372 (electronic bk.)
9781469606279 (electronic bk.)
1469606275 (electronic bk.)
9780807834121
0807834122 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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