Rebecca L. Davis

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Selected Works

More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss

Why are Americans so obsessed with marriage?

“Purity and Population: American Jews, Marriage, and Sexuality”

In Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth Century United States, edited by Gillian Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather White

" 'These Are a Swinging Bunch of People': Sammy Davis Jr., Religious Conversion, and the Color of Jewish Ethnicity"

American Jewish History 100, no. 1 (January 2016): 25-50.

“‘My Homosexuality is Getting Worse Every Day’: Norman Vincent Peale, Psychiatry, and the Liberal Protestant Response to Same-Sex Desires in Mid-Twentieth Century America"

In American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity, edited by Catherine Brekus and W. Clark Gilpin

"Family"

In The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, edited by Philip Goff

"Eroticized Wives: Evangelical Marriage Guides and God’s Plan for the Christian Family"

In The Embrace of Eros: Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity, edited by Margaret Kamitsuka

"'Not Marriage at All, but Simple Harlotry': The Companionate Marriage Controversy"

Journal of American History, 94, no. 4 (March 2008): 1137-1163