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Men without Maps Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall
ISBN: PB: 9780226656113, ISBN: HB: 9780226656083, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
In "Men without Maps", John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps – provided by n...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Mourning After Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men
ISBN: PB: 9780226576688, ISBN: HB: 9780226576541, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 halftones
On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these inti...
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£27,50
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£79,00
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Song Walking Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9780226538013, ISBN: HB: 9780226537962, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
"Song Walking" explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey inv...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs
ISBN: PB: 9780226492636, ISBN: HB: 9780226492469, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression".Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" investigates the tenacity and cultura...
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£18,00
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£54,00
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Dalit Women Speak Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
ISBN: PB: 9789383074761, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
466 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
The right to equality regardless of gender or caste is fundamental in India. Yet even the Indian government has acknowledged that the institutional forces arrayed against this right are powerful – and, what's more, that they shape people's mindsets i...
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£28,00
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Hard-Core Romance "Fifty Shades of Grey", Best-Sellers, and Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226153698, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
104 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
From its beginnings in "Twilight" fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million...
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£16,00
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Fertility and Jewish Law Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature
ISBN: HB: 9781611682397, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2012
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai exami...
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£68,00
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Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780300171341, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...
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£24,00
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