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Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music
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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£28,00
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£84,00
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Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
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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£32,00
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Ill Composed Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
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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£28,00
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£65,00
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Of the Nation Born The Bangladesh Papers
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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£26,50
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Revathi A Life in Trans Activism
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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£14,50
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Foucault and the "Kamasutra" The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India
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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£32,00
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£84,00
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Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church
ISBN: PB: 9781611689099, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women's reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in Wes...
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£32,00
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Before and After Gender Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life
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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Gender Nonconformity and the Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300125856, Yale University Press, March 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act's scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination b...
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£65,00
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