Covenant Marriage
The Movement to Reclaim Tradition in America
This book explores a movement that emerged over the past fifteen years, which aims to do just that. Guided by certain politicians and religious leaders who herald marriage as a solution to a range of longstanding social problems, a handful of state governments enacted "covenant marriage" laws, which require couples to choose between a conventional and a covenant marriage. While the familiar type of union requires little effort to enter and can be terminated by either party unilaterally, covenant marriage requires premarital counseling, an agreement bound by fault-based rules or lengthy waiting periods to exit, and a legal stipulation that divorce can be granted only after the couple has received counseling.
Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging
Immigrants in Europe and the United States
Bookmarks
Reading in Black and White, First Paperback Edition
Metroburbia, USA
The War on Human Trafficking
U.S. Policy Assessed
Zora Neale Hurston
Collected Plays
Even avid readers of Hurston’s prose, however, may be surprised to know that she was also a serious and ambitious playwright throughout her career. Although several of her plays were produced during her lifetime—and some to public acclaim—they have languished in obscurity for years. Even now, most critics and historians gloss over these texts, treating them as supplementary material for understanding her novels. Yet, Hurston’s dramatic works stand on their own merits and independently of her fiction.
Now, eleven of these forgotten dramatic writings are being published together for the first time in this carefully edited and annotated volume. Filled with lively characters, vibrant images of rural and city life, biblical and folk tales, voodoo, and, most importantly, the blues, readers will discover a “real Negro theater” that embraces all the richness of black life.
Risky Lessons
Sex Education and Social Inequality
Rebels All!
Rebels All! A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America
Do Butterflies Bite?
Fascinating Answers to Questions about Butterflies and Moths
Screening Genders
The American Science Fiction Film
The first comprehensive overview of the history of gender theory in film, this book is an ideal text for courses and will serve as a foundation for further discussion among students and scholars alike.