Participant Info

First Name
Alison
Last Name
Lefkovitz
Affiliation
New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark
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Keywords
gender, law, sexuality, feminism, marriage, men's rights activism, welfare, family, class
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Personal Info

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About Me
Recent Publications

Books

Strange Bedfellows: Marriage’s Unfinished Revolution, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“‘The Peculiar Anomaly’: Same-Sex Infidelity in Postwar Divorce Courts,” Law and History Review33 (August 2015), 665-701.

“Men in the House: Race, Welfare, and the Regulation of Men’s Sexuality in the United States, 1961-1972,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 20 (September 2011), 594-614.

Public Humanities

“Jordan Peterson and the Return of the Men’s Rights Movement,” Washington Post, July 24, 2018.

“The History of Patents at NJIT” with Elizabeth Petrick, In the Classroom: A Blog about Undergraduate Teaching and Learning. The Consortium for Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs. (2017).

“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History,” Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality website (2016).

“A Workshop for Law-School Bound Students,” In the Classroom: A Blog about Undergraduate Teaching and Learning. The Consortium for Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs. (2015).

“Child Custody and the Changing Family in the Late 20thCentury,” The Virginia Child Custody Project website (2014).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Family, Gender, Government, Law, Sexuality, Women