How Sex Became a Civil Liberty

by Leigh Ann Wheeler

Book Overview

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty is the first book to show how and why we have come to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights. Using rich archival sources and oral interviews, historian Leigh Ann Wheeler shows how the private lives of women and men in the American Civil Liberties Union shaped their understanding of sexual rights as they built the constitutional foundation for the twentieth-century's sexual revolutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199754233
• ISBN13: 9780199754236
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"