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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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Gender Studies

Law

Gender Nonconformity and the Law

Yuracko Kimberly A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300125856, Yale University Press, March 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act's scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination b...

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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China

Yen Shen Grace

ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...

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Childism Confronting Prejudice Against Children

Young-Bruehl Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300192407, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homo...

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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Yack Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226944678, ISBN: HB: 9780226944661, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Privilege of Crisis Narratives of Masculinities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography, and Film

Yekani Elahe Haschemi

ISBN: PB: 9783593393995, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
320 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view".The Privilege of Crisis" d...

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Belonging in an Adopted World Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

Yngvesson Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226964478, ISBN: HB: 9780226964461, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 9 tables, 16 halftones

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging in an Adopted World", Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implica...

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