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Until very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male—female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage as something other than the conjugal union of husband and wife is a mistake.
Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book's core argument quickly became the year's most widely...
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"Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior raises suspicions and a woman—especially a Black woman—can find herself on trial for witchcraft. But fourteen years have passed since her mother’s disappearance,...
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"Ilyon Woo presents the earliest child custody laws of this country with vivid relevance ... both legal and feminist details are fascinating" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch ). The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America's most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country's notions of women's rights, family, and marriage itself. In 1814, Eunice Chapman came home...
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