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Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...
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£26,00
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£71,50
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Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
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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£22,00
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£47,00
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Not Tonight Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health
ISBN: PB: 9780226179155, ISBN: HB: 9780226179018, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table
Pain. Vomiting. Hours and days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans and costs the US economy at least $32 billion per year. Nevertheless, it is frequent...
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£20,50
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£68,00
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Business of Sex
ISBN: HB: 9789381017814, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2014
236 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, "The Business of Sex" corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and...
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£26,50
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Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
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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£26,00
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Hard-Core Romance "Fifty Shades of Grey", Best-Sellers, and Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226153698, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
104 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
From its beginnings in "Twilight" fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million...
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£16,00
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You Feel So Mortal Essays on the Body
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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£16,50
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Sexual Discretion Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing
ISBN: PB: 9780226096537, ISBN: HB: 9780226096360, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as "down-low" or "DL" men, many continue to have relatio...
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£24,00
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£61,00
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Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges
ISBN: PB: 9780226095868, ISBN: HB: 9780226095721, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: There ar...
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£24,00
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£78,00
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