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One Marriage Under God
The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage accessible to same-sex couples have seen increasing success, these initiatives have sparked a backlash as campaigns...
by Nancy Levit, Robert R.M. Verchick, Martha Minow
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer has received rave reviews. Now, in the completely updated second edition of this outstanding...
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation
Beyond Law and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States
From Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and...
Marriage Proposals
Questioning a Legal Status
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The essays in Marriage Proposals envision a variety of scenarios in which adults would continue to join themselves together seeking permanent companionship and sustenance, linking sexual intimacy to a long commitment, usually caring for each other, and building new families. What would disappear are...
Why Girls Fight
Female Youth Violence in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
In low-income U.S. cities, street fights between teenage girls are common. These fights take place at school, on street corners, or in parks, when one girl provokes another to the point that she must either “step up” or be labeled a “punk.” Typically, when girls engage in violence that is...
by Jennifer L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic. This volume goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the early Republic?
Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years...
Buying a Bride
An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
There have always been mail-order brides in America—but we haven’t always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called “Tobacco Wives” of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today’s modern same-sex mail-order grooms to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered,...
We Are What We Celebrate
Understanding Holidays and Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global holiday? These questions and more are answered in this fascinating exploration into the history and...
Racial Indigestion
Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the links...
More Beautiful and More Terrible
The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon: On the one hand, we might be hypocritical—saying...
Black Frankenstein
The Making of an American Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2008
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure...
Toward a Unified Criminology
Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People and Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Why do people commit crimes? How do we control crime? The theories that criminologists use to answer these questions are built on a number of underlying assumptions, including those about the nature of crime, free will, human nature, and society. These assumptions have a fundamental impact on criminology:...