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Traces America's sanctuary movement across five decades Sanctuary has become one of the most powerful social and religious movements to push back against state power over the past 50 years, reemerging today at the center of national debates over immigration, religion, and political dissent. Following the election of Donald Trump, religious ......
Analyzes six major sociological approaches to religion's role in contemporary society Sociologists have spent considerable effort analyzing religion's place in today's world, yet they have come to no consensus on what is happening to it. Depending on whom you consult, religion is either declining or becoming militantly conservative, is ......
Analyzes six major sociological approaches to religion's role in contemporary society Sociologists have spent considerable effort analyzing religion's place in today's world, yet they have come to no consensus on what is happening to it. Depending on whom you consult, religion is either declining or becoming militantly conservative, is ......
Black Motherhood, Performance, and the Costs of Grief
In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley's decision to display her son's brutalized body transformed private mourning into public activism, establishing a paradigm of "grief capital." In Mama, Don't You Weep, Rhaisa Kameela Williams interrogates this phenomenon, arguing that Black maternal grief functions simultaneously as a political and financial commodity ......
Black Motherhood, Performance, and the Costs of Grief
In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley's decision to display her son's brutalized body transformed private mourning into public activism, establishing a paradigm of "grief capital." In Mama, Don't You Weep, Rhaisa Kameela Williams interrogates this phenomenon, arguing that Black maternal grief functions simultaneously as a political and financial commodity ......
Hallucinatory, evocative, and surreal in its own idiosyncratic way, Hot Fruit is Erinrose Mager's long-awaited debut volume. Strange and incantatory, Erinrose Mager's debut collection Hot Fruit investigates the longing for self, the longing for another, and the longing for connection between the self and another when the other is inherently ......
Katharine Bement Davis and America's First Sexual Revolution
Chronicles the pioneering reformer whose 1920s study of female sexuality ignited America's first sexual revolution Decades before Alfred Kinsey released his famous "Reports" on human sexuality, Katharine Bement Davis conducted a pioneering study of female sexuality. Published in 1929, Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-Two Hundred Women was ......
Exposes the racial hierarchies in how human eggs are marketed and sold Conceiving Asian Babies offers a compelling and timely exploration of race, identity, reproduction, and capitalism within the industry of human egg donation. Far from being a purely medical or personal matter, egg donation serves as a powerful lens for understanding how ......
Exposes the racial hierarchies in how human eggs are marketed and sold Conceiving Asian Babies offers a compelling and timely exploration of race, identity, reproduction, and capitalism within the industry of human egg donation. Far from being a purely medical or personal matter, egg donation serves as a powerful lens for understanding how ......
