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Women Studies

Emirati Women Generations of Change

Bristol-Rhys Jane

ISBN: PB: 9781849046633, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The discovery of oil in the late 1960s catapulted the people of Abu Dhabi out of the isolating poverty into which it had plunged in the 1930s and onto the global stage. Massive construction projects built the city and infrastru...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Coolie Woman The Odyssey of Indenture

Bahadur Gaiutra

ISBN: PB: 9781849046602, ISBN: HB: 9781849042772, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husb...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution

Barack Fishman Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

Boswell John

ISBN: PB: 9780226345222, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
456 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 13 halftones

John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members – among the...

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General

Becoming a Marihuana User

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226332901, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
88 pp., 15.2x10 cm, 6 halftones

OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz musician, expert on "deviant" culture, and founding NORM...

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General

Enigma of Diversity The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice

Berrey Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226246239, ISBN: HB: 9780226246062, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That's a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era – but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contempor...

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Anthropology

Criminology

Cruel Attachments The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

Borneman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226233918, ISBN: HB: 9780226233888, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessme...

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Media Studies

It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens

Boyd Danah

ISBN: PB: 9780300199000, Yale University Press, December 2014
296 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Does social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some...

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Manifestos for the 21st Century

Asylum and Exile The Hidden Voices of London

Bidisha

ISBN: HB: 9780857422101, Seagull Books, December 2014
152 pp., 25x15 cm

"Asylum and Exile" is the result of several months of personal outreach to refugees and asylum seekers that goes behind the headlines to reveal the humanity, tragedy, and bravery of the individuals who have left everything behind to seek sanctuary fr...

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Gender Studies

Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: PB: 9780226211725, ISBN: HB: 9780226038353, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone – or oneself – was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic ele...

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