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Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice

University of California Press, 2019

When we talk about sex—whether great, good, bad, or unlawful—we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior. We ask questions like, What counts as sexual consent? How do we teach consent to impressionable youth, potential predators, and victims? How can we make consent sexy?

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War and Religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-first Centuries

University of California Press, 2019

The resurgence of violent terrorist organizations claiming to act in the name of God has rekindled dramatic public debate about the connection between violence and religion and its history.

Offering a panoramic view of the tangled history of war and religion throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, War and...

Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity

University of California Press, 2019

A free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet,...