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How Places Make Us Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780226361253, ISBN: HB: 9780226361116, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 11 tables
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this no...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Normality A Critical Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...
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To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria
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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£20,50
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£62,00
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Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...
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£19,00
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£28,00
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Ethno-erotic Economies Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9780226491172, ISBN: HB: 9780226491035, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Ethno-erotic Economies" explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
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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£25,00
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Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration
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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£34,00
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Visions of Sodom Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850
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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£41,50
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Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image
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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