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Women Studies

We Also Made History Women in the Ambedkarite Movement

Pawar Urmila, Moon Meenakshi

ISBN: PB: 9789383074747, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
372 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 8 halftones

Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of women's participation in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Dalit movement for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early...

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Women Studies

Fear That Stalks Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces

Pilot Sara, Prabhu Lora

ISBN: PB: 9789383074723, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
338 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

What are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space"‌ – and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women, but also the poor, transgender people, and others...

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Genetics

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Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Panofsky Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...

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Women Studies

Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe

Parvulescu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...

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Education

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When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education

Posey-Maddox Linn

ISBN: PB: 9780226120218, ISBN: HB: 9780226120188, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to – and often end up becoming active in – urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn P...

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Civil Disobedience An American Tradition

Perry Lewis

ISBN: HB: 9780300124590, Yale University Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, th...

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Black Picket Fences, Second Edition Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Pattillo Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226021195, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's "Black Picket Fences" explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a...

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Business & Economics

Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Pachirat Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...

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Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

Pierre Jemima

ISBN: PB: 9780226923031, ISBN: HB: 9780226923024, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking "The Predicament of Blackness" is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa...

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Criminology

Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law

Phillips Susan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667669, ISBN: HB: 9780226667652, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line illus.

In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted fo...

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