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Masculinities Liberation through Photography
ISBN: HB: 9783791359519, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
304 pp., 32x22.8 cm, 250 colour illus.
This photographic exploration draws together the work of approximately fifty artists of different ethnicities, generations, and gender identities to look at how ideas of masculinity have evolved since the 1960s. Each of its six themed chapters featur...
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£39,99
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Mourning After Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men
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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£27,50
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£79,00
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Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders
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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£23,00
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£68,00
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Making Kin not Population Reconceiving Generations
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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£10,00
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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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Meet Joe Copper Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front
ISBN: PB: 9780226044194, ISBN: HB: 9780226038865, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones
"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun". So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, field...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
ISBN: PB: 9780226706276, ISBN: HB: 9780226706269, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm
In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a...
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£37,00
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£87,00
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Men's Section Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World
ISBN: PB: 9781611680799, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2011
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this illuminating book, Elana Maryles Sztokman investigates a fascinating new sociological phenomenon: Orthodox Jewish men who connect themselves to egalitarian or quasi-egalitarian religious enterprises. She examines the men who have enabled thes...
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£24,00
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Mieke Bal Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780226035857, ISBN: HB: 9780226035840, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables
Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the poi...
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£34,50
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£74,00
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Manhood in the Making Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
ISBN: PB: 9780300050769, Yale University Press, July 1991
272 pp., 20.8x13.6 cm
In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness – on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality – is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousnes...
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