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Women Studies

Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

Iversen Torben, Rosenbluth Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780300171341, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Privilege of Crisis Narratives of Masculinities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography, and Film

Yekani Elahe Haschemi

ISBN: PB: 9783593393995, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
320 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view".The Privilege of Crisis" d...

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Psychology

Gender Studies

Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan's New Map of Love

Cooper Davis Peggy, Cooper Davis Lizzy

ISBN: HB: 9781906497699, Seagull Books, May 2011
300 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 halftones

In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the publication of that rev...

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Gender Studies

Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

Schilt Kristen

ISBN: PB: 9780226738079, ISBN: HB: 9780226738055, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious...

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Gender Studies

Guilty Males and Proud Females Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival

Ferrari Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9781906497521, Seagull Books, February 2011
268 pp., 23.9x16.3 cm, 13 halftones

"Guilty Males and Proud Females" is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy – the marriage of a god and goddes...

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Music

Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Gender Studies

Law of Love From Autonomy to Communion

Brett Stephen F.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662070, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
180 pp., 21.5x13 cm

With an interdisciplinary combination of philosophy, theology, and family law, "The Law of Love" explores the impact of secular conceptions of autonomy on sexuality and family. Drawing from the thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and th...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Slumming Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Heap Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226322445, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 maps, 19 halftones

During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze", recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop".Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner", and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, an...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Bodies of Knowledge Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave

Kline Wendy

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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Gender Studies

Capital Affairs London and the Making of the Permissive Society

Mort Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780300118797, Yale University Press, June 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.

Did Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This exciting new account of 1950s London challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s, arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that ma...

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