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Sex and the constitution : sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century
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Title
Sex and the constitution : sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century / Geoffrey R. Stone.
ISBN
9780871404695
0871404699
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
Physical Description
xxxii, 668 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2017
Bibliography
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": the meaning of obscenity
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.
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