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Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar
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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£25,50
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Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
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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£38,00
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Butterfly's Sisters The Geisha in Western Culture
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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£35,00
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Bodies of Knowledge Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave
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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£22,50
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£70,50
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Mother's Work How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300164619, Yale University Press, May 2010
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.
The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But...
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£23,00
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Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market
ISBN: PB: 9780226114064, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 line drawings, 3 tables, 16 halftones
"Both Hands Tied" studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisc...
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£22,50
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Natalia Shelikhova Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce
ISBN: PB: 9781602230736, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2010
250 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones
This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American...
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Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings
ISBN: PB: 9780226779218, ISBN: HB: 9780226779201, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones
During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's wri...
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£34,50
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Before the Storm A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942
ISBN: PB: 9781602230767, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
385 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones
From June of 1941 through the following summer, Fredericka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and "Before the Storm...
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Debate of the "Romance of the Rose"
ISBN: PB: 9780226670133, ISBN: HB: 9780226670126, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm
In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read "Romance of the Rose" for its blatant and unwarran...
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£88,50
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