Dishonorable passions : sodomy laws in America, 1861-2003 / William N. Eskridge, Jr.

New York : Viking, 2008.

ix, 514 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

American body politics and the crime against nature, 1861-81 -- From the sodomite to the homosexual, 1881-1935 -- The anti-homosexual Kulturkampf, 1935-61 -- The case(s) against sodomy laws, 1935-61 -- Homo equality and sodomy reform, 1961-69 -- The crime against nature after Stonewall, 1969-75 -- Gay civil rights and a new politics of preservation, 1975-86 -- The crime against nature on trial, Bowers v. Hardwick,1986 -- The lawyers and sodomy come out of their closets, 1986-2003 -- Sodomy law at the Alamo, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003 -- American public law after Lawrence -- Lawrence and popular constitutionalism.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-493) and index.