Boundaries of Desire (eBook)

Eric Berkowitz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
476 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-646-9 (ISBN)

Infos

';A bracing look at the often-strange relationship between sexuality and the legal system over six tumultuous decades' (Booklist). Society's acceptance of sex and the grasp of its many variables are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another. Combining meticulous research and lively storytelling, this ';eye-opening history of sexual legislation' traces the fast-moving blood sport of sex law over the past century. It challenges our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity, and proves that nothing sparks intoleranceon the left and the rightmore than sex (Publishers WeeklyStarred Review). Starting when courts censored birth control information as pornography and let men rape their wives, and continuing through the ';sexual revolution' and into the present day (when sexual assault, gay rights, sex trafficking, and sex on the internet saturate the news), legal scholar Eric Berkowitz explores how the law has remained out of synch with the convulsive changes in sexual morality. ';In lively, passionate prose, [he] shows how irrational, unjust, and destructive even well-intentioned attempts to legislate lust can be. This controversial book is as mind-blowing as it is heart-opening' (Christopher Ryan, author ofSex at Dawn).

Autor

Eric Berkowitz’s lengthy career as a lawyer, journalist and writer has been marked by both meticulous scholarship and uncompromising advocacy. An active intellectual property, First Amendment and business litigator, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, California Lawyer, and The Washington Post, as well as websites such asHuffington Post, AlterNet and Salon. He has been interviewed widely for radio and television including for the History Channel’s recent 9-partseries, “How Sex Changed the World.” He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Birth Control • book about sex • eric berkwoitz • erick berkowtiz • erik berkowitz • Gender • history of reproduction • history of sex • laws about sex • lawyer author • Pornography • Reproduction • sex law • sexual morality • Sexual Revolution • sociology of sex
• ISBN-10: 1-61902-646-5 / 1619026465
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-646-9 / 9781619026469