Sexual injustice [[electronic resource] ] : Supreme Court decisions from Griswold to Roe / / Marc Stein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785339303321
• Autore: Stein Marc
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-4696-0627-5; 0-8078-9937-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.73
• Soggetti: Constitutional law - United States; Sex and law - United States; Gay people - Legal status, laws, etc - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The U.S. Supreme Court of the 1960's and 1970's 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.