In The News: College of Liberal Arts
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Formal sex education is in decline in the United States.
In the wake of the headlines being made across the country and in Nevada about sexual harassment and discrimination, UNLV professor Michael Green looks back at some of the most famous sex scandals in Nevada¡¯s political history.
While many of marriage's fundamental elements have evolved over the years ¨C the freedom to separate, the legalisation of same-sex marriage in numerous countries and prenuptial agreements ¨Cone thing that has been slow to evolve is the changing of surnames in heterosexual unions. But things are beginning to change, with a number of men deciding to take on their wives' surnames in some form.
Dean Heller claims he¡¯s the only barrier between Nevadans and the revival of Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste. The question is whether he can be that bulwark during a difficult re-election campaign.
Las Vegas plays host this weekend to the national Women¡¯s March for 2018, something organizers say demonstrates Nevada¡¯s importance in this year¡¯s elections.
These days many women keep their own name when they marry, and couples are increasingly opting for a double-barrelled or merged name. But men who take their wife's surname are still quite rare. Kirstie Brewer spoke to three.
The #metoo movement is all about personalizing the issue of harassment, bringing it from the abstract to the concrete and personal. But every choice to disclose involves professional and personal risks, as evidenced by one professor¡¯s recent comments at the Southern Political Science Association and on social media.
A recent study found that people think that women who decide to keep their surname after marriage have more authority over them. This, however, affects how people see the spouse.
A few decades ago, at the time of the marriage, the women almost always took the full name of the husband, with the suffix "va" in Hungary. Wives, however, now have plenty of choices outside of this version. There is a great deal of popularity in getting their parents' surnames or fitting them with their own hyphen in front of their first name.
We hadn¡¯t done an intersex fiction list¡ until today! Here are eight great fiction books featuring intersex characters, three of which are written by intersex authors!?
In Taiwan, many women born in 40 or 50 years after the Republic of China are no longer surnamed. But in the United States, we still see that Hillary is crowned with the husband's name "Clinton", and the first lady Melanie is crowned "Trump." After the American actress Jessica Biel married the singer's husband Justin Timberlake, she became Jessica Timberlake. Why are women in the United Kingdom and the United States still surnamed?