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Micki McElya is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book is The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
The gender politics of Positive Psychology valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.
On the world gay liberationists hoped to create.
Tara Westover's best-selling memoir may reveal more about the place of feminism in contemporary U.S. life than any book in recent memory.
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