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What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities today. Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the couple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and popular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hannah Arendt to the Bible, Sex and the City, Bridget Jones' Diary, Beyoncé's “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” and HBO's Big Love. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange moments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and memoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent rumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and consideration.

Single people. --- 130.2 --- 392.3 --- People, Single --- People, Unmarried --- Persons, Single --- Persons, Unmarried --- Single persons --- Singles (Persons) --- Unmarried people --- Unmarried persons --- Marital status --- Filosofie van de cultuur. Cultuurfilosofie. Cultuursystemen. Kultuurfilosofie --- Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship --- 392.3 Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship --- 130.2 Filosofie van de cultuur. Cultuurfilosofie. Cultuursystemen. Kultuurfilosofie --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Social Science. --- Social science --- Marriage. --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Gender studies. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Single people --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Sociology.

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In 1975, California courts stripped a lesbian mother of her custody rights because she was living openly with another woman. Twenty years later, the Virginia Supreme Court did the same thing to another lesbian mother. In ordering that children be separated from their mothers, these courts ruled that it was not possible for a woman to be both a good parent and a lesbian.The Right to be Parents is the first book to provide a detailed history of how LGBT parents have turned to the courts to protect and defend their relationships with their children. Carlos A. Ball chronicles the stories of LGBT parents who, in seeking to gain legal recognition of and protection for their relationships with their children, have fundamentally changed how American law defines and regulates parenthood. Each chapter contains riveting human stories of determination and perseverance as LGBT parents challenge the widely-held view that having a same-sexual orientation, or that being a transsexual, renders individuals incapable of being good parents.To this day, some courts are still not able to look beyond sexual orientation and gender identity in order to fairly apply legal principles in cases involving LGBT parents and their children. Yet on the whole, stories are of progress and transformation: as a result of these pioneering LGBT parent litigants, the law is increasingly recognizing the wide diversity in American familial structures. The Right to be Parents explores why and how that has come to be.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies. --- LAW / Family Law / Children. --- Custody of children --- Gay parents --- Parent and child --- Homosexual parents --- Parents --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- 392.3 <73> --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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It details family religious beliefs as expressed in the almost 3,000 individual Hebrew personal names that have so far been recorded in epigraphic and biblical material. The Hebrew onomasticon is further compared with 1,400 Ammonite, Moabite, Aramean, and Phoenician names. These data encompass the vast majority of known Hebrew personal names and a substantial sample of the names from surrounding cultures. In this impressive compilation of evidence, the authors describe the variety of rites performed by families at home, at a neighborhood shrine, or at work. Burial rituals and the ritual care for the dead are examined. A comprehensive bibliography, extensive appendixes, and several helpful indexes round out the masterful textual material to form a one-volume compendium that no scholar of ancient Israelite religion and archaeology can afford not to own. Archaeologists have worked to illuminate many aspects of this family religion as enacted by and related to the nuclear family unit and have found evidence that domestic cults were more important in Israel than has previously been understood. One might even conceive of every family as having actively partaken in ritual activities within its domestic environment.Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant analyzes the appropriateness of the combined term family and household religion and identifies the types of family that existed in ancient Israel on the basis of both literary and archaeological evidence. Comparative evidence from Iron Age Philistia, Transjordan, Syria, and Phoenicia is presented. This monumental book presents a typology of cult places that extends from domestic cults to local sanctuaries and state temples. . During the past several decades, family and household religion has become a topic of Old Testament scholarship in its own right, fed by what were initially three distinct approaches: the religious-historical approach, the gender-oriented approach, and the archaeological approach. The first pursues answers to questions of the commonality and difference between varieties of family religion and describes the household and family religions of Mesopotamia, Syria/Ugarit, Israel, Philistia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Gender-oriented approaches also contribute uniquely important insights to family and household religion. Pioneers of this sort of investigation show that, although women in ancient Israelite societies were very restricted in their participation in the official cult, there were familial rituals performed in domestic environments in which women played prominent roles, especially as related to fertility, childbirth, and food preparation. .

Jewish families --- Jews --- Families --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Families, Jewish --- Conduct of life --- History --- Social life and customs --- Biblical teaching. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Antiquities. --- Palestine --- 392.3 <33> --- 392.3 <33> Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Familieleven. Familiesystemen. Gezinsleven. Matriarchaat. Patriarchaat. Kinship--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Biblical teaching --- Antiquities --- Jewish families - Conduct of life - History - To 70 A.D. --- Jews - Social life and customs - To 70 A.D. --- Bible. - Old Testament - Antiquities --- Families - Biblical teaching --- Families - Religious aspects - Judaism - To 70 A.D. --- Families - Palestine - History - To 70 A.D. --- Palestine - Social life and customs - To 70 A.D. --- Bible. - Old Testament