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Women Studies

Women and Partition A Reader

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: PB: 9788189013363, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
400 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm

Urvashi Butalia's work on the subject of Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is internationally known. Her book "The Other Side of Silence" has been translated into more than ten languages and won several awards. In this new coll...

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Fashion

Women Studies

Pocket A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900

Burman Barbara, Fennetaux Ariane

ISBN: PB: 9780300253740, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...

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Photography

Women Studies

Women War Photographers From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus

Beckmann Anne-Marie, Korn Felicity

ISBN: HB: 9783791358680, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 163 colour illus.

Women have been on the front lines of war for more than a century. With access to places men cannot go, the women who photograph war lend a unique perspective to the consequences of conflict. From intimate glimpses of daily life to the atrocities of...

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Women Studies

Asia

Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426154, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Dangerous Outcast" traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Literate South Reading before Emancipation

Barton Schweiger Beth

ISBN: HB: 9780300112535, Yale University Press, August 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

A pervasive assumption about the culture of the southern United States is that it is firmly rooted in an oral tradition, not a written one. Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy and reading in the American South before emancipation by s...

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Children's Books

Women Studies

Fighter in Velvet Gloves Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

Boochever Annie, Peratrovich Jr. Roy

ISBN: PB: 9781602233706, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2019
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

"No Natives or Dogs Allowed", blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after becoming a seasoned fighter for equality, she would d...

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Women Studies

Mannequin Working Women in India's Glamour Industry

Bhattacharya Manjima

ISBN: HB: 9789385932229, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The fashion industry in India is huge, employing more than sixty million people and, at $70 billion, accounting for a sizable chunk of the nation's economic activity. Despite that, it remains a startlingly unprofessional industry – particularly when...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

I've Got to Make My Livin' Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Blair Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597584, ISBN: HB: 9780226055985, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 maps, 9 tables, 15 halftones

For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In "I've Got to Make My Livin'", Cynthia Blair...

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Women Studies

Africa

Surviving Biafra A Nigerwife's Story

Bird Elizabeth S., Umelo Rosina

ISBN: HB: 9781849049580, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1961, Rosina "Rose" Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves cau...

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Christianity

Women Studies

Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings

Brekus Catherine A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...

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