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Q&A with Chelsea Schields, author of Offshore Attachments
Jun 10 2024
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experi
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In pictures: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity
Nov 16 2023
Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of rabbinic literature. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late anci
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A glimpse into More Than Marriage
Jun 01 2023
The law generally does a poor job in supporting adults in various kinds of relationships. It’s well past time for that situation to change.
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Three Ingredients for an Equal Dual-Career Partnership
Apr 17 2023
This post was originally published on the Council on Contemporary Families blog at The Society Pages and is reposted here with permission.By Jaclyn Wong, author of Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family DecisionsCollege-educated young men and wome
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Q&A with Laura Enriquez: on the Intimate Impact of Immigration Policy
Aug 03 2021
This interview was originally published on the UCI School of Social Sciences site by Heather Ashbach, and is reposted here with permission. Award-winning Author Laura EnriquezImmigration policy is fundamentally reshaping Latino families and perpetuating inequality, says UCI Chicano/Latino st
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