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Vice Patrol Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
ISBN: PB: 9780226769783, ISBN: HB: 9780226769646, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and cl...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Happy Hormone Tracker A Wellness Journal for Monthly Cycle Tracking and Hormone Balance for Women
ISBN: FLEXI: 9781950968176, GMC Group, Blue Star Press, January 2021
125 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! Track your hormonal patterns and get to know your menstrual cycle in a more intimate way using this stylish and functional personal wellness planner for women. This first-of-its-kind 90-day hormone tracker journa...
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£20,82
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Picturing Political Power Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement
ISBN: HB: 9780226703244, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 105 halftones
For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images – whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been fl...
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£36,00
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Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones
"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...
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£34,00
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Princess of the Hither Isles A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South
ISBN: HB: 9780300242607, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabam...
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£25,00
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Authority Construction and Corrosion
ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables
What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...
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£23,00
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Someone The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herve Guibert
ISBN: PB: 9780226606217, ISBN: HB: 9780226606187, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In "Someone", Michael Lucey conside...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
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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£24,00
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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780226583662, ISBN: HB: 9780226583495, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified...
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£25,00
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£68,00
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Perfect Wedding Workout Look Your Best on the Big Day in Just 10 Weeks
ISBN: PB: 9781782551461, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2018
216 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 215 colour and black&white illus.
Making that last-minute effort to have a flat belly and firm arms for a strapless wedding dress? Every woman dreams of looking perfect on one of the most important days of her life. After all, she doesn't want to be upset about little problem areas w...
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£13,95
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