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juliana spahr is an assistant professor at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Her fi rst book of poems, Response, appeared in 1996 as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her scholarly book, Everybody's Autonomy, was published by University of Alabama Press earlier this year. She is coeditor, with Jena Osman, of the annual journal Chain, now on its eighth issue.

This book tells the stories of notable historical figures who, by resisting patriarchal laws condemning adultery, gay and lesbian sex, and sex across the boundaries of religion and race, brought about lasting social and political change. Constitutional scholar David A. J. Richards investigates the lives of leading transgressive artists, social critics, and activists including George Eliot, Benjamin Britten, Christopher Isherwood, Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Mead. Richards shows how ethical empowerment, motivated by love, allowed these figures to resist the injustices of anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, leading to the constitutional condemnation of these political evils in the United States, Britain, and beyond. Love and law thus grow together, and this book shows how and why. Drawing from developmental psychology (including studies of trauma), political theory, the history of social movements, literature, biography, and law, this book will be a thought-provoking tool for anyone interested in civil rights

Dr Joseph H. Hancock, II is celebrating his first wedding anniversary to his violinist husband Mr Raymond Mallari. For eighteen years, the two of them have been full-time caregivers to his mother Peggy Alder. In this editorial, Hancock explains why his new modifying sexuality is not only gay, but tired. He also thanks all those who contributed to the Volume 9, Number 3 issue of the journal Fashion, Style & Popular Culture.