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Gender Studies

Blind to Sameness Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies

Friedman Asia

ISBN: PB: 9780226023632, ISBN: HB: 9780226023465, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to...

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Gender Studies

Documenting Intimate Matters Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America

Foster Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226257471, ISBN: HB: 9780226257464, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control; it has been a way to understand ourselves and others; and it has been at the...

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Women Studies

Law

Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions

Fishbayn Joffe Lisa, Neil Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611683264, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religiou...

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General

Letting Stories Breathe A Socio-Narratology

Frank Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004839, ISBN: HB: 9780226260136, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us – they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can al...

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Criminology

Political Science

Policing Economic Crime in Russia From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatisation

Favarel-Garrigues Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9781849040655, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In analysing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, this book reveals the historical roots of the 'criminal problem' that has marked Russian politics since the late 1980s. During t...

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Women Studies

Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights

Feldman Jan

ISBN: PB: 9781584659730, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional religious co...

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Gender Studies

Guilty Males and Proud Females Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival

Ferrari Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9781906497521, Seagull Books, February 2011
268 pp., 23.9x16.3 cm, 13 halftones

"Guilty Males and Proud Females" is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy – the marriage of a god and goddes...

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Sign Language

General

Deaf History and Culture in Spain A Reader of Primary Documents

Fraser Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781563684197, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
260 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 photos

In this landmark reader, Benjamin Fraser offers in five parts 44 Spanish documents dating from 1417 to the present, translated for the first time to trace the turbulent history of Deaf culture in Spain. Part I: The Birth of Oralism and Deafness as Me...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Burning Women A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present

Fisch Joerg

ISBN: HB: 9781905422029, Seagull Books, November 2005
621 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 30 halftones

"Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which entails one or more people – voluntarily or involuntarily – following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of...

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