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Judaism

Women Studies

Expanding the Palace of Torah Orthodoxy and Feminism

Ross Tamar

ISBN: PB: 9781684580514, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, March 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, as well as Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Writing as an insider – herself an Orthodox Jew – Tama...

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Women Studies

Health & Wellbeing

Courage to Tri A Motivational How-To for Women

Rutledge Bethany

ISBN: PB: 9781782551355, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, July 2018
256 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Have you dreamed of crossing a finish line but felt like you had no idea how to get from where you are now to the starting line? Whether it's a 5K, triathlon, or some other starting line, this book is here to give you all the insights you need to mak...

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Women Studies

Biography & Memoires

Mothers of Manipur Twelve Women Who Made History

Rehman Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9789384757762, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On July 15, 2004, twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, positioned themselves in front of the gates of the Kangla Fort in Manipur, India – the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. One by one, the women stripped the...

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General

Women Studies

Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica

Rivers-Moore Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...

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Music

Women Studies

Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States

Ross Sarah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...

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History of Art

Architecture

Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India

Ruggles D. Fairchild

ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones

Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...

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Women Studies

Europe

Panaceia's Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: HB: 9780226925387, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 15 halftones

"Panaceia's Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicin...

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Women Studies

Islam

Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies

Raghavan Chitra, Levine James P.

ISBN: PB: 9781611682809, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessaril...

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Reinharz Shulamit, Raider Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9781584654391, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2004
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women's history, and American history,...

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