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Brian Monahan, “Timeless Kills: Media Looping and the Cultural Production of Serial Killer Icons,” Sociological Forum, 2025 Serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer have been gone for decades, yet their stories continue to fill our screens and airwaves. From Netflix series and documentaries to true crime podcasts, their names and crimes keep reappearing […]

Jennifer L. Hook and Meiying Li, “National Work-Family Policies and Gender Earnings Inequality in 26 OCED Countries, 1999 to 2019,” Socius, 2025 When women have children, they often earn less than women without kids. This is called the motherhood penalty, and it happens for many reasons. Mothers may step out of work for a time, […]

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Wendy D. Manning and Kristen E. Gustafson, “Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Couple Parents: A Decade of Change,” Journal of Marriage and Family, 2025 Public support for same-sex marriage has climbed dramatically in recent decades, but how have attitudes toward same-sex parents evolved? In a new study, Wendy D. Manning and Kristen E. Gustafson examined changes in […]