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Author:

Stone, Geoffrey R.

Title:

Sex and the constitution : sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century / Geoffrey R. Stone.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Liveright Pub. Corp.,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

668 p. : illustrated ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sex and law--United States--History.
Sexual rights--United States--History.
Sex--Christianity.--Christianity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The ancient world : the triumph of Augustine -- The power of revealed truth -- England, the enlightenment, and the age of eros -- From puritanism to the pursuit of happiness -- The world of the framers : a Christian nation? -- The fundamental maxims of free government -- The second great awakening -- Tending to corrupt the public morals -- Contraception and abortion : from the founding to the 1950s -- Strange freaks of nature -- Coming out -- Obscenity and the First Amendment : a corrupting and debasing influence -- The end of obscenity -- Sex and speech in the Twenty-First century -- The constitution and the contraception -- The road to Roe -- Roe and beyond -- The gay moment -- A right to retain their dignity -- Same-sex marriage and the constitution.

ISBN:

0871404699
9780871404695 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2016047264

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