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Gender Studies

Tristan's Shadow Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner

Daub Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780226082134, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Surgical Temptation The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Darby Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226101101, ISBN: HB: 9780226136455, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfun...

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Women Studies

Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India

Datta Bishakha

ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm

From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Disturbing Practices History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War

Doan Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226001616, ISBN: HB: 9780226001586, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line illus.

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet or...

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Criminology

Culture Studies

Subject of Murder Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

Downing Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226003542, ISBN: HB: 9780226003405, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen – a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart f...

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Gender Studies

Intimate Matters A History of Sexuality in America (Third Edition)

D'Emilio John, Freedman Estelle B.

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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Culture Studies

Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...

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Business & Economics

Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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General

Urban Spaces after Socialism Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Darieva Tsypylma, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593393841, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
325 pp., 22x14 cm, 40 halftones

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...

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Criminology

Cultures of Confinement A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Dikotter Frank, Brown Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781850658450, Hurst Publishers, April 2007
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Prisons, it seems, are on the increase everywhere, from democratic Britain to communist China, as ever larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their his...

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