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Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Burch Susan, Kafer Alison

ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...

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Women Studies

Natalia Shelikhova Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce

Black Dawn Lea, Petrov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781602230736, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2010
250 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American...

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Neighborhood That Never Changes Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity

Brown-Saracino Japonica

ISBN: PB: 9780226076638, ISBN: HB: 9780226076621, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
352 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm, 3 maps, 10 tables, 22 halftones

Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as "A Neighborhood That Never Changes" demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local...

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Gender Studies

Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226043548, ISBN: HB: 9780226043524, University of Chicago Press, December 2009
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...

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Military

Criminology

Talking to Terrorists Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

Bew John, Frampton Martyn, Gurruchaga Inigo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659679, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The peace agreement in Northern Ireland is now held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The 'lessons of Ulster' have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agencies to numer...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Censoring Sexuality

Bailey Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781905422562, Seagull Books, May 2008
160 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Despite Western culture's roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies. As late as the 19th Century, homosexuality was th...

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Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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Through Deaf Eyes A Photographic History of an American Community

Baynton Douglas, Gannon Jack R., Lindquist Bergey Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781563683473, Gallaudet University Press, April 2007
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour photos

In 2001, the Smithsonian Institution presented the landmark photographic exhibition "History Through Deaf Eyes", representing nearly 200 years of United States deaf history. Drawing heavily on the extensive archives at Gallaudet University, the curat...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Artemisia Files Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035826, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
245 pp., 19.4x13.1 cm, 44 halftones

One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It...

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Literary Criticism

History of Art

Mieke Bal Reader

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035857, ISBN: HB: 9780226035840, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...

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