Laws and Nature: Shaping Sex, Preference, and Family

by Martha C. Nussbaum

Book Overview

From Dan Quayle's attack on TV's Murphy Brown for giving birth out of wedlock, to the referendum recently passed in Colorado that forbid local communities from enacting non-discrimination laws for sexual orientation, the public furor over issues of same-sex marriages, gay rights, pornography, and single-parent families has erupted with a passion not seen since the 1960s. It is a battle being fought, in large part, over where to draw the line between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195098943
• ISBN13: 9780195098945
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"