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Women Studies

Anthropology

Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar

Cole Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226113319, ISBN: HB: 9780226113302, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 14 halftones

"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered t...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

Hedgepeth Sonja M., Saidel Rochelle G.

ISBN: PB: 9781584659051, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2010
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women's experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous stud...

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Gender Studies

Law of Love From Autonomy to Communion

Brett Stephen F.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662070, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
180 pp., 21.5x13 cm

With an interdisciplinary combination of philosophy, theology, and family law, "The Law of Love" explores the impact of secular conceptions of autonomy on sexuality and family. Drawing from the thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and th...

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Women Studies

Butterfly's Sisters The Geisha in Western Culture

Kawaguchi Yoko

ISBN: HB: 9780300115215, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women – and geishas in particular – from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embo...

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General

Criminology

At Home in the Law How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy

Suk Jeannie

ISBN: PB: 9780300172621, Yale University Press, October 2010
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic a...

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General

Marriage and Cohabitation

Thornton Arland, Axinn William G., Xie Yu

ISBN: PB: 9780226798677, ISBN: HB: 9780226798660, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 16 line illus.

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Slumming Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Heap Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226322445, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 maps, 19 halftones

During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze", recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop".Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner", and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, an...

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Criminology

Current Affairs

Seven Shots An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath

Hunt Jennifer C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226360904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the New York subway that would have cost hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. "Seven Shots" tells the...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Bodies of Knowledge Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave

Kline Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226443089, ISBN: HB: 9780226443058, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In "Bodies of Knowledge", Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the fema...

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General

Military

Shift Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict

Klein Menachem

ISBN: PB: 9781849040853, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The size and intensity of the Israeli army's operations since 2000 as well as the unprecedented scale of settlement construction brought about a qualitative change in the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis, altering...

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