Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670018627 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. William N. Eskridge, Jr., is John A. His research and writings provided a foundation for the landmark Supreme Court ruling of Lawrence v. He is the coauthor (with Darren Spedale) of Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? and author of Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet. Texas (2003), which invalidated consensual sodomy laws
With dramatic stories of both the hunted (Walt Whitman and Margaret Mead) and the hunters (Earl Warren and J. Certain to provoke heated debate, Dishonorable Passions is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of sexuality and its regulation in the United States.. The nation’s sexual revolution of the 1960s fueled a social movement of people seeking repeal of sodomy laws, but it was not until the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. By the twentieth century, America’s emerging regulatory state targeted “degenerates” and (later) “homosexuals.” The witch h
From Publishers Weekly Today's battle for same-sex marriage rights is only the latest step in the long struggle by lesbians and gay men to overturn a complex web of state laws banning nonreproductive sexual activity, often by heterosexuals as well as homosexuals. n this fascinating and engaging survey, Yale law professor Eskridge (Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse?) charts not just the destructive history of those laws, but also the long, complex and often deeply contradictory history of how Americans thought about sex and the right to privacy. All rights reserved. (May 5)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Laws against sodomy—or crimes against nature, as they were called by colonial lawmakers—
Toward Legal Sense on Sodomy Rob Hardy To some Americans, it seems obvious that consenting adults should be able to have sex with whomever they want; to others, it seems obvious that such things should happen only in marriage. Not only should homosexuals not be sleeping together, say some in this latter group, but also if our laws don't restrict such activities, the homosexuals are going to be recruiting our children and who knows what else will happen. Theological and legal restrictions and punishments for sodomy go back for millennia, but American laws about sodomy came into their own in the ninete. "An important but disturbing vision" according to Wayne Dynes. This is an important, but disturbing book. To be sure, it contains a great deal of useful information, distilled from the author's earlier studies. It is safe to say that no other author could do this with such authority and precision.In his earlier published books Eskridge had seemed to ally himself with the radical gay faction. Now, it seems, he has morphed into something like a social conservative.Eskridge believes that, even after our remarkable legal progress, gays are being held back by formidable reserves of disgust and fear of social pollution. These sta. Good introduction to a growing topic in American policy Of the great legal and social struggles in American history; gay rights is probably the last to come to fruition. In fact, over the course of the 20th century, as communities around the US were granting rights to women, racial minorities and even handicapped people, laws were being put in place that solidified discrimination against gays and lesbians. This book traces the evolution of social and legal norms regarding the treatment of homosexuals in America over the past 200 years. Interspersing legal cases with public policies enacted via referendum and legislat