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I've Got to Make My Livin' Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
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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£25,00
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£42,00
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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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Intimate Matters A History of Sexuality in America (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226923802, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
536 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 55 halftones, 11 line illus.
As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, "Intimate Matters" offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this gr...
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£22,00
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Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780226043548, ISBN: HB: 9780226043524, University of Chicago Press, December 2009
224 pp., 23x15 cm
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...
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£25,00
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£76,00
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Invention of Heterosexuality
ISBN: PB: 9780226426013, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
305 pp., 21.2x15.5 cm, 1 haltone
"Heterosexuality", assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and h...
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£17,50
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