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New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Interviews with researchers on sex-related issues.

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Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021) provides an accou... Read more

12 Aug 2023

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Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, Kris Marsh's The Love Jones Cohor... Read more

12 Aug 2023

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