Leigh Ann Wheeler
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199754236
- eISBN:
- 9780190254414
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199754236.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter focuses on the period from the 1960s to the 1970s, which saw the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) fight for sexual civil liberties on the foundation of a right to privacy. It ...
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This chapter focuses on the period from the 1960s to the 1970s, which saw the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) fight for sexual civil liberties on the foundation of a right to privacy. It considers the relationship between emerging rights to sexual privacy and the increasing exposure of sexuality in public before turning to the debate over access to wanted versus protection from unwanted sexual expression. It also examines the ACLU's support for the rights of homosexuals as well as the campaign launched by moral reformers, feminists, and other consumers demanding greater protection from unwanted sexual expression, including unsolicited mail, public sexual displays, rape, and sexual harassment.Less
This chapter focuses on the period from the 1960s to the 1970s, which saw the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) fight for sexual civil liberties on the foundation of a right to privacy. It considers the relationship between emerging rights to sexual privacy and the increasing exposure of sexuality in public before turning to the debate over access to wanted versus protection from unwanted sexual expression. It also examines the ACLU's support for the rights of homosexuals as well as the campaign launched by moral reformers, feminists, and other consumers demanding greater protection from unwanted sexual expression, including unsolicited mail, public sexual displays, rape, and sexual harassment.
