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Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...
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£68,00
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£23,00
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Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
ISBN: PB: 9783791384665, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.
Now available in an updated paperback edition and including new photographs, this thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-d...
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£17,99
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Merits of Women Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
ISBN: PB: 9780226550633, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 1 halftone
You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man... Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps... Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when it's in fact b...
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£11,50
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Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions
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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£32,00
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Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights
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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£24,00
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Burning Women A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present
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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£79,00
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