Strange Bedfellows Part 2
Автор: Кейси Майклс
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36 Hours Serial As a devastating summer storm hits Grand Springs, Colorado, the next thirty-six hours will change the town and its residents forever….Strange Bedfellows Part 2:Sworn enemiesCassandra Mercer and Sean Frame become more than friends when they’re trapped inside her car by a dangerous mudslide.Things have been awkward between Cassandra and her former nemesis, Sean Frame, since that steamy night in her car. The two are spending more time together – and not just arguing over school policy. Sean and his troubled son Jason are constantly sparring, and Cassandra’s feelings for both have her caught in the middle. How can she make Sean understand that with each reckless act Jason is crying out for his father’s love?The story continues in Strange Bedfellows Part 3.
Strange Bedfellows Part 3
Автор: Кейси Майклс
Год издания:
36 Hours Serial As a devastating summer storm hits Grand Springs, Colorado, the next thirty-six hours will change the town and its residents forever….Strange Bedfellows Part 3:Sworn enemies Cassandra Mercer and Sean Frame become more than friends when they’re trapped inside her car by a dangerous mudslide.The differences that flared into debates at school council meetings have become personal, as Cassandra gets closer to Sean and his son Jason. She sees Jason’s love for his dad, and knows she must find a way for Sean to see it too.And Sean is seeing something new in Cassandra. Ever since their night together, he’s realized, her crusade for her students comes from true caring. Maybe she can give Jason the stability he needs, and a reason for Sean to open up his heart.Don't miss the next story in this ongoing series, Ooh Baby, Baby by Diana Whitney.
Strange Bedfellows
Автор: Alison Lefkovitz
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In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine , the feminist activist Judy Syfers proclaimed that she «would like a wife,» offering a wry critique of the state of marriage in modern America. After all, she observed, a wife could provide Syfers with free childcare and housecleaning services as well as wages from a job. Outside the pages of Ms. , divorced men's rights activist Charles Metz opened his own manifesto on marriage reform with a triumphant recognition that «noise is swelling from hundreds of thousands of divorced male victims.» In the 1960s and 70s, a broad array of Americans identified marriage as a problem, and according to Alison Lefkovitz, the subsequent changes to marriage law at the state and federal levels constituted a social and legal revolution. The law had long imposed breadwinner and homemaker roles on husbands and wives respectively. In the 1960s, state legislatures heeded the calls of divorced men and feminist activists, but their reforms, such as no-fault divorce, generally benefitted husbands more than wives. Meanwhile, radical feminists, welfare rights activists, gay liberationists, and immigrant spouses fought for a much broader agenda, such as the extension of gender-neutral financial obligations to all families or the separation of benefits from family relationships entirely. But a host of conservatives stymied this broader revolution. Therefore, even the modest victories that feminists won eluded less prosperous Americans—marriage rights were available to those who could afford them. Examining the effects of law and politics on the intimate space of the home, Strange Bedfellows recounts how the marriage revolution at once instituted formal legal equality while also creating new forms of political and economic inequality that historians—like most Americans—have yet to fully understand.