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Judaism

Gender Studies

Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

Ladin Joy

ISBN: PB: 9781512602937, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how...

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Gender Studies

Mourning After Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men

Ibson John

ISBN: PB: 9780226576688, ISBN: HB: 9780226576541, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 halftones

On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these inti...

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General

Gender Studies

Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders

Mai Nicola

ISBN: PB: 9780226585000, ISBN: HB: 9780226584959, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

I've Got to Make My Livin' Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Blair Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226597584, ISBN: HB: 9780226055985, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 maps, 9 tables, 15 halftones

For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In "I've Got to Make My Livin'", Cynthia Blair...

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Gender Studies

Brokered Subjects Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom

Bernstein Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226573779, ISBN: HB: 9780226573632, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

"Brokered Subjects" digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein s...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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Gender Studies

Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India

Hoenig Patrick, Singh Navsharan

ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...

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General

Gender Studies

Making Kin not Population Reconceiving Generations

Clarke Adele, Haraway Donna

ISBN: PB: 9780996635561, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, May 2018
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Gender Studies

Pansy Beat

ISBN: HB: 9780692953099, DAP, Krimskrams Island, April 2018
416 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! "Pansy Beat" was a short-lived fanzine published by Michael Economy in New York from 1989 to 1990, totaling five quarterly issues. Each issue's 50-some black-and-white pages documented the exuberant downtown gay and drag cl...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979

Shepard Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226493275, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked. ? "Sex, France, and Arab Men" is a history of how an...

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