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Gender Studies

Business of Sex

Murthy Laxmi, Seshu Saraswathi

ISBN: HB: 9789381017814, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2014
236 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, "The Business of Sex" corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Sexual Discretion Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing

McCune Jeffrey Q. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096537, ISBN: HB: 9780226096360, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as "down-low" or "DL" men, many continue to have relatio...

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General

Making Hispanics How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

Mora G. Cristina

ISBN: PB: 9780226033839, ISBN: HB: 9780226033662, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as "Hispanics" and "Latinos" in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges

Mahmud Lilith

ISBN: PB: 9780226095868, ISBN: HB: 9780226095721, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: There ar...

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Political Science

General

Politics of Belonging Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration

Masuoka Natalie, Junn Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226057163, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 15 tables

The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Questions about who should be admitted and what benefits should be afforded to new members of the polity are among the most divisive and controversial contemporary political i...

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Aviation

Women Studies

Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War

Milanetti Gian Piero

ISBN: PB: 9788875651466, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2013
280 pp., 24x17 cm, 505 black&white illus.

A pictorial history on the contribution that Soviet airwomen brought to the II World War. The Author retraces meticulously the role that these young women played during what they called themselves the "Great patriotic War". He went several times to R...

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Women Studies

Our Pictures, Our Words A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement

Murthy Laxmi, Dasgupta Rajashri

ISBN: PB: 9789381017258, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 300 colour illus.

Vibrant, dynamic, spirited, and forceful. The contemporary women's movement in India, which began in the late 1970s, fought valiantly against dark times marked by violence and misogyny. But it also celebrated – liberation, solidarity among women, and...

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Gender Studies

America

West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930

Mitchell Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226532691, ISBN: HB: 9780226532684, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In "West of Sex", Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and crim...

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Criminology

Iphigenia in Forest Hills Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Malcolm Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300181708, ISBN: HB: 9780300167467, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 21x14 cm

"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it". This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The d...

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Sign Language

General

Many Ways to Be Deaf International Variation in Deaf Communities

Monaghan Leila, Schmaling Constanze, Nakamura Karen, Turner Graham H.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685781, Gallaudet University Press, January 2013
338 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

The recent explosion of sociocultural, linguistic, and historical research on signed languages throughout the world has culminated in "Many Ways to Be Deaf", an unmatched collection of in-depth articles about linguistic diversity in Deaf communities...

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