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I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases
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For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases
If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers’ rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority opinions?
In offering thirteen famous dissents—fr… More >>
I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases
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Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
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In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced within their own households and in the larger society during the Civil War era. Based on literary as well as legal sources, Bardaglio’s analysis reveals how legal… More >>
Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
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