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Oscar Wilde: Paradoxical Poster Child For Both Identify And Post-Identify, Martha M. Ertman Nov 2008

Oscar Wilde: Paradoxical Poster Child For Both Identify And Post-Identify, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Contractual Purgatory For Sexual Marginorities: Not Heaven, But Not Hell Either, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Contractual Purgatory For Sexual Marginorities: Not Heaven, But Not Hell Either, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

Legal doctrines banning polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons betrayed the nation by engaging in conduct associated with people of color. This article reveals the racial underpinnings of polygamy law by examining cartoons and other antipolygamy rhetoric of the time to demonstrate Sir Henry Maine’s famous observation that the move in progressive societies is “from status to contract.” It frames antipolygamists’ contentions as a visceral defense of racial and sexual status in the face of encroaching contractual thinking. Polygamy, they reasoned, was “natural” for people of color but so “unnatural” for whites as to produce a …


Changing The Meaning Of Motherhood, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Changing The Meaning Of Motherhood, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Reconstructing Marriage: An Intersexional Approach, Martha Ertman Sep 2008

Reconstructing Marriage: An Intersexional Approach, Martha Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Vive No Différence, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Vive No Différence, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal For Valuing Women's Work Through Premarital Security Agreements, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal For Valuing Women's Work Through Premarital Security Agreements, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Unbending Gender: Why Family And Work Conflict And What To Do About It, Martha Ertman Sep 2008

Unbending Gender: Why Family And Work Conflict And What To Do About It, Martha Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.