Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 Hardcover - 2008
by William N. Eskridge
A fascinating one-of-a-kind history of the government's regulation of sexual behavior
From the Pentagon to the wedding chapel, there are few issues more controversial today than gay rights. As William Eskridge persuasively demonstrates in Dishonorable Passions, there is nothing new about this political and legal obsession. The American colonies and the early states prohibited sodomy as the 'crime against nature,' but rarely punished such conduct if it took place behind closed doors. By the twentieth century, America's emerging regulatory state targeted 'degenerates' and (later) 'homosexuals.' The witch hunts of the McCarthy era caught very few Communists but ruined the lives of thousands of homosexuals. 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. Texas (2003) that private sex between consenting adults was decriminalized. With dramatic stories of both the hunted (Walt Whitman and Margaret Mead) and the hunters (Earl Warren and J. Edgar Hoover), Dishonorable Passions reveals how American sodomy laws affected the lives of both homosexual and heterosexual Americans. 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.
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- Title Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
- Author William N. Eskridge
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 514
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York
- Date May 1, 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780670018628 / 0670018627
- Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
- Dimensions 9.62 x 6.34 x 1.57 in (24.43 x 16.10 x 3.99 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Sex and law - United States - History, Sex crimes - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008002733
- Dewey Decimal Code 345.730
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