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Media Studies

Gender Studies

(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work

Duffy Brooke Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300218176, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...

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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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Gender Studies

Visions of Sodom Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850

Cocks H. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226438665, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 line drawings

The book of Genesis records the fiery fate of Sodom and Gomorrah – a storm of fire and brimstone was sent from heaven and, for the wickedness of the people, God destroyed the cities "and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that...

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Photography

Gender Studies

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image

Campbell Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226373690, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 75 halftones

On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elem...

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Gender Studies

Music

Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music

Hutchinson Sydney

ISBN: PB: 9780226405469, ISBN: HB: 9780226405322, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

"Tigers of a Different Stripe" takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

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Gender Studies

Ill Composed Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

Weisser Olivia

ISBN: PB: 9780300224306, ISBN: HB: 9780300200706, Yale University Press, October 2016
296 pp., 23x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a...

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Gender Studies

Of the Nation Born The Bangladesh Papers

Hossain Hameeda, Mohsin Amena

ISBN: HB: 9789384757793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, "Of the Nation Born" takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on...

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Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Revathi A Life in Trans Activism

Revathi A., Murali Nandini

ISBN: PB: 9789384757755, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A. Revathi's memoir "The Truth about Me" became a sensation in India when it was published in 2011. The pathbreaking autobiography told the story of Revathi's childhood uneasiness with her male body, her exile to a house of "hijras" (the South Asian...

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Gender Studies

Literary Criticism

Foucault and the "Kamasutra" The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India

Gautam Sanjay K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348445, ISBN: HB: 9780226348308, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The "Kamasutra" is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In "Foucault and the Kamasutra"...

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