American Muslim women writers share their real-life tales of flirting, dating, longing, and sex. Their stories show just how varied the search for love can be - from singles' events and college flirtations to arranged marriages
Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don't want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement - just a st…
This work provides a carefully-planned introduction to the key issues and debates within family law from some of the leading authorities within their field. It is designed both as a self-standing book focusing on the key issues in the subject, and as a supplement to more detaile…
How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together ' like a horse and carriage'? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In this lively, lucid, and comprehensive te…
Tells the stories of Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin - five couples who approached their relationships with the same rebellious…
Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hea…
Om den moderne iranske kvindes liv
Klassisk kærlighedstragedie om følelser der ikke lader sig kontrollere. Dramaet begynder, da ægteparret Eduard og Charlotte inviterer hans ven Kaptajnen og hendes niece Ottilie på langt besøg på deres gods.
What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s? Often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety, this book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mi…
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America--a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads' daughter Benedicte te…