Sex and PUnishment

Informationen zum Autor Eric Berkowitz is a writer, lawyer and journalist. Before devoting his practice to public interest and asylum law, he practiced intellectual property and civil litigation in Los Angeles for more than twenty years. Berkowitz has published widely throughout his career, including investigative pieces in the  New York Times  and  Los Angeles Times , and articles in the  Washington Post  and  The Economist , among others. He lives in San Francisco, California. Klappentext Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. Zusammenfassung Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law! from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; One Channeling the Urge: The First Sex Laws; Two Honor among (Mostly) Men: Cases from Ancient Greece; Three Imperial Bedrooms: Sex and the State in Ancient Rome; Four The Middle Ages: A Crowd Condemned; Five Groping toward Modernity: The Early Modern Period! 1500 - 1700; Six The New World of Sexual Opportunity; Seven The Eighteenth Century: Revelation and Revolution; Eight The Nineteenth Century: Human Nature on Trial; Notes Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo credits; Index

Product details

• Authors: Eric Berkowitz, Berkowitz Eric
• Publisher: External catalogues_UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2013
• EAN: 9781908906106
• ISBN: 978-1-908906-10-6
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 199 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law; History, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social and cultural history, Social attitudes, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Criminal law: offences against the person, Criminal law: procedure and offences