A wide body of research has examined unwanted but consensual sex in a face-to-face context, focusing on intercourse, petting, kissing, and other sexual activity that people consent to even though they do not want to. Recent research has shown many people engage in sexual interactions via computer-mediated mediums; yet, to date, there are no studies that have investigated whether unwanted but co...

In the 1920s and 1930s, conceptions of “New Woman” Egyptomania shaped American culture. Employing methods critical race art history material culture studies, I focus on a 1925 Callot Soeurs dress silk pajamas (c. 1920–1929), taking into consideration both semiotic qualities Egyptian motifs as they circulated in early twentieth century visual well sensuous aspects garments. Through primary sourc...

P ositive turnout rates in the United States and elsewhere are widely considered “an embarrassing limitation of the economic approach to politics” because, for any one voter, “the costs of casting a ballot in any large election are almost always greater than the potential benefits, which are dependent on the unlikely occurrence of casting the winning or tie vote in an election” ~Knack 1992, 133...

This book is about elliptic curves and modular functions, two topics that are intimately related in both accidental and essential ways. As emphasized by André Weil in his magisterial historical introduction to contemporary number theory [W], the arithmetic study of elliptic curves is, in spite of the clear reference to the integral calculus in the adjective elliptic, in many respects antecedent...