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Gender Studies

Dancing Odissi Paratopic Performances of Gender and State

Banerji Anurima

ISBN: PB: 9780857425539, Seagull Books, February 2020
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones, 22 facsimiles

Odissi holds iconic status as one of the eight classical dance forms recognized and promoted by the Indian government. This book traces the dance's transformation from its historical role as a regional artistic practice to its modern incarnation as t...

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Gender Studies

Breaching the Citadel The India Papers

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757786, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"Breaching the Citadel", part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity....

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General

Gender Studies

Brokered Subjects Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom

Bernstein Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226573779, ISBN: HB: 9780226573632, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

"Brokered Subjects" digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein s...

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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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Gender Studies

Friendship as Social Justice Activism Critical Solidarities in a Global Perspective

Banerjea Niharika, Dasgupta Debanuj, Dasgupta Rohit K., Grant Jaime M.

ISBN: PB: 9780857424433, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"Friendship as Social Justice Activism" brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the globe and...

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Gender Studies

How Places Make Us Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities

Brown-Saracino Japonica

ISBN: PB: 9780226361253, ISBN: HB: 9780226361116, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 11 tables

We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this no...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration

Bano Samia

ISBN: PB: 9781512600353, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law – such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation – have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of ob...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution

Barack Fishman Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...

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General

Gender Studies

Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: PB: 9780226211725, ISBN: HB: 9780226038353, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone – or oneself – was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic ele...

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Gender Studies

America

Meet Joe Copper Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

Basso Matthew L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044194, ISBN: HB: 9780226038865, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun". So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, field...

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