Sex and the Constitution, Geoffrey R. Stone
Sex and the Constitution, Geoffrey R. Stone
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Sex and the Constitution
Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century

Author: Geoffrey R. Stone

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 20 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2017


Synopsis

Renowned constitutional scholar Geoffrey R. Stone traces the evolution of legal and moral codes that have attempted to legislate sexual behavior from the ancient world to America's earliest days to today’s fractious political climate. Stone crafts a remarkable, even thrilling narrative in which he shows how agitators, moralists, legislators, and especially the justices of the Supreme Court have historically navigated issues as explosive and divisive as abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and contraception. Overturning a raft of contemporary shibboleths, Stone reveals that at the time the Constitution was adopted there were no laws against obscenity and no laws against abortion before the midpoint of pregnancy. A pageant of historical characters?including Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Anthony Comstock, Margaret Sanger, J. Edgar Hoover, Phyllis Schlafly, and Justice Anthony Kennedy?enlivens this landmark work, which dramatically reveals how our laws about sex, religion, and morality reflect the paradoxes and cultural schisms that have cleaved our nation from its founding.

About Geoffrey R. Stone

Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He is a preeminent constitutional law scholar.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad

I was watching a local news and arts program on PBS when Geoff Stone appeared as a guest. He discussed his new book, SEX AND THE CONSTITUTION. He explained that, at the time our constitution was adopted, there were no laws in the states against pornography, contraception, abortion before quickening......more

Goodreads review by Izzy

I bought this purely because Dakota Johnson talked about it in her Architectural Digest house tour and I love her and her kitchen. But also so so interesting !!......more

Goodreads review by Noah

Wow, that was long! Really, really detailed book about SO much, especially court cases in the US. Really great info in here - sometimes it can be too much! Like so much information! Especially since it’s a lot of history, and I’m more about the analysis. And the analysis is great when Stone does it,......more