Sexual Injustice

Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control abortion interracial marriage and obscenity in <i>Griswold</i> <i>Eisenstadt</i> <i>Roe</i> <i>Loving</i> and <i>Fanny Hill</i> alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in <i>Boutilier</i>. In the same era in which the Court recognized special marital reproductive and heterosexual rights and privileges it also upheld an immigration statute that classified homosexuals as “psychopathic personalities.” Stein shows how a diverse set of influential journalists judges and scholars translated the Court’s language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality.