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Performing Arts

Women Studies

Colonial Staged Theatre In Colonial Calcutta

Chatterjee Sudipto

ISBN: PB: 9781905422449, Seagull Books, October 2007
344 pp., 23x15.6 cm

From the late eighteenth century, Calcutta, first city of the British empire, has been a hub of intersecting ideas and movements of change. Nowhere did the restless currents of history play themselves out more graphically than in the composite art of...

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Women Studies

Shiv Sena Women Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum

Sen Atreyee

ISBN: PB: 9781850658702, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
236 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This fascinating book, based on Atreyee Sen's immersion in the low-income, working-class slums of Bombay, tells the story of the women and children of the Shiv Sena, the radical Hindu nationalist party of Western India. The wom...

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Sign Language

General

BUG Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution

Heuer Christopher John

ISBN: PB: 9781563683572, Gallaudet University Press, September 2007
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"What you have in your hands is a bomb. But it is the kind you need to hold on to for dear life, not run away from" – From the Foreword, John Lee Clark Christopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before "being able to hear a lot as a kid...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Bellissima Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy

Gundle Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300176803, Yale University Press, July 2007
328 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, black&white illus.

"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Invention of Heterosexuality

Katz Jonathan Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226426013, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
305 pp., 21.2x15.5 cm, 1 haltone

"Heterosexuality", assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and h...

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Sign Language

General

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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Criminology

Cultures of Confinement A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Dikotter Frank, Brown Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781850658450, Hurst Publishers, April 2007
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Prisons, it seems, are on the increase everywhere, from democratic Britain to communist China, as ever larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their his...

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General

Sociology in America A History

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090955, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
880 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 9 maps, 6 tables

Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that s...

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General

Mathematical Models of Social Evolution A Guide for the Perplexed

McElreath Richard, Boyd Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226558271, ISBN: HB: 9780226558264, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 55 line drawings, 99 tables, 41 boxes

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavio...

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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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