The War on Sex

Book Overview

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363674
• ISBN13: 9780822363675
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"