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Women Studies

Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison

Habib Anjum Zamarud

ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...

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Women Studies

Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

Kolas Ashild

ISBN: HB: 9789385932304, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by schola...

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General

Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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Women Studies

Motherhood and Choice Feminist Debates on Non-Normative Motherhood

Nandy Amrita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932045, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Pathways of Desire The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men

Carrillo Hector

ISBN: PB: 9780226517735, ISBN: HB: 9780226508177, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings

With "Pathways of Desire", Hector Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attent...

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America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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Europe

Gender Studies

Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979

Shepard Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226493275, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked. ? "Sex, France, and Arab Men" is a history of how an...

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Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands

Ourednicek Martin, Jichova Jana, Pospisilova Lucie

ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...

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Sign Language

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Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s

Carty Breda

ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos

This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...

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Gender Studies

Friendship as Social Justice Activism Critical Solidarities in a Global Perspective

Banerjea Niharika, Dasgupta Debanuj, Dasgupta Rohit K., Grant Jaime M.

ISBN: PB: 9780857424433, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"Friendship as Social Justice Activism" brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the globe and...

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