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Shirin Neshat I Will Greet the Sun Again

Schad Ed

ISBN: HB: 9783791358758, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

In the 1990s, Shirin Neshat's startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen vid...

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General

Polygamy An Early American History

Pearsall Sarah M. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226843, Yale University Press, October 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities,...

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Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World

Ogborn Miles

ISBN: PB: 9780226657684, ISBN: HB: 9780226655925, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in "The Freedom of Speech", across the Anglo-Caribbean world the fundamental distinction b...

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Women Studies

Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers

Hussain Neelam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...

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Photography

Women Studies

Women War Photographers From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus

Beckmann Anne-Marie, Korn Felicity

ISBN: HB: 9783791358680, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 163 colour illus.

Women have been on the front lines of war for more than a century. With access to places men cannot go, the women who photograph war lend a unique perspective to the consequences of conflict. From intimate glimpses of daily life to the atrocities of...

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America

General

Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

Gordon Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...

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Gender Studies

Crossing A Transgender Memoir

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226662565, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

"I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am". Once a golden boy of conservative economi...

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Gender Studies

Fear of Child Sexuality Young People, Sex, and Agency

Angelides Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226648637, ISBN: HB: 9780226648460, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Continued public outcries over such issues as young models in sexually suggestive ads and intimate relationships between teachers and students speak to one of the most controversial fears of our time: the entanglement of children and sexuality. In th...

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Criminology

Murder in New Orleans The Creation of Jim Crow Policing

Adler Jeffrey S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226643311, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings

New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940 –...

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Patchwork City Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila

Garrido Marco Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643144, ISBN: HB: 9780226643007, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 line drawings

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city". Garrido d...

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