Bibliograph

Sexual injustice, Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe, Marc Stein

Type

Label

Sexual injustice, Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe, Marc Stein

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sexual injustice

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Marc Stein

Sub title

Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe

Summary

Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier. In 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." Stein shows how 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

Target audience

adult

Classification