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Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979

Shepard Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226493275, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked. ? "Sex, France, and Arab Men" is a history of how an...

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Gender Studies

To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria

Smith Daniel Jordan

ISBN: PB: 9780226491653, ISBN: HB: 9780226491516, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Refrains about financial hardship are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed through the idiom "to be a man is not a one-day job". But while men talk constantly about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns abo...

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Gender Studies

Before and After Gender Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life

Strathern Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780986132537, University of Chicago Press, HAU, April 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's "Before and After Gender" was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy

Shah Chaynika, Merchant Raj, Mahajan Shalini, Nevatia Smriti

ISBN: PB: 9789384757687, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2015
287 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? "No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy" answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the fe...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sarojini N., Marwah Vrinda

ISBN: HB: 9789383074525, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women's bodies. Viewed...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

Stimpson Catharine R., Herdt Gilbert

ISBN: PB: 9780226774817, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
536 pp., 23x15 cm

"Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives – in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups... Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from histori...

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Jewish Studies

Gender Studies

You Feel So Mortal Essays on the Body

Shinner Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226105277, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Feet, bras, autopsies, hair – Peggy Shinner takes an honest, unflinching look at all of them in "You Feel So Mortal", a collection of searing and witty essays about the body: her own body, female and Jewish; those of her parents, the bodies she came...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish

Smith Marquard

ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.

Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...

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Gender Studies

Asia

Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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