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A Guide to America's Sex Laws - Hardcover

Posner, Richard A.; Silbaugh, Katharine B.

 
9780226675640: A Guide to America's Sex Laws
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226675645 ISBN 13: 9780226675640
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

A Guide to America's Sex Laws is the first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws. It summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity, revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities, and irrationalities, and providing an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation. Judge Richard A. Posner and Katharine B. Silbaugh cover broadly defined areas of regulation, providing background and definitions and placing the laws in their historical and constitutional context. From Alabama to Wyoming, this informative and fascinating reference book will be an essential resource.

"It takes only a few minutes with A Guide to [America's] Sex to realize that the nation's laws governing what two consenting adults can do with one another are an odd jumble."--Eric Fidler, San Diego Commerce

"Especially noteworthy is how laws governing various sexual activities vary from state to state."--Library Journal

"Fascinating and often surprising facts are concisely documented and conveniently organized in A Guide."--Carlin Meyer, New York Law Journal

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard A. Posner is chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

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Sex, although considered by many in our culture the quintessential private activity, is blanketed by a staggering number and variety of laws. This first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws brings together in one place and summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity. In doing so, it reveals gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities, and irrationalities, and provides an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation. From Alabama to Wyoming, this informative and fascinating reference book will be an essential resource to a wide range of persons both within and outside the legal profession - specialists in the regulation of sexual behavior, students of the legislative process, lawyers involved in family and sex law, and anyone interested in social and political issues involving sexual orientation and sexual morality.

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226675645
ISBN 13 
9780226675640
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
248
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