"Victory" is the story of how a band of extraordinary individuals brought on a revolution that, in forty years, has transformed American life and our notions of human identity: how we find love and reproduce. When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted most notably at a bar called Stonewall in N[...]

Men and women have always bargained for sex. In Hard Bargains, philosopher-lawyer Linda Hirshman and legal historian Jane Larson provide the first complete analysis ofpower in heterosexual relationships, combining an eye-opening legal history of sexual regulation with thought-provoking predictions o[...]

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Does changing a toddler 's diapers count as a fulfilling job? Is the glass ceiling that keeps women from advancing in their careers actually located in the home? In "Get to Work," a book that instantly ignited a firestorm of debate, Hirshman coge[...]