Leigh Ann Wheeler

Leigh Ann Wheeler is associate professor of history at Binghamton University. She is coeditor of the Journal of Women's History and the author of Against Obscenity: Reform and the Politics of Womanhood in America, 1873–1935 and How Sex Became a Civil Liberty.

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How Sex Became a Civil Liberty

<p>Did the ACLU’s involvement in the ’60s Greenwich Village scene help American courts strike down draconian sex laws? Leigh Ann Wheeler, the author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Sex-Became-Civil-Liberty/dp/0199754233/" target="_blank">How Sex Became a Civil Liberty</a></i>, on how civil libertarians invented sexual liberties.</p>

Leigh Ann Wheeler