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Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)

Wells Ida B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...

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Poetry

Women Studies

Eleanor

Jacobik Gray

ISBN: PB: 9781933880754, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...

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Women Studies

Midlife Crisis The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliche

Schmidt Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226637143, ISBN: HB: 9780226686851, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

The phrase "midlife crisis" today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility – an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age – but before it became a gendered cliche, it gained traction as a f...

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America

Women Studies

They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Jones-Rogers Stephanie E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251838, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave?...

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Women Studies

Calamity The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

Jones Karen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300212808, Yale University Press, February 2020
304 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 20 colour illus.

Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin' tootin' "lady wildcat" of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America's most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her...

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Middle East

Women Studies

Matilda Empress, Queen, Warrior

Hanley Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300251470, Yale University Press, February 2020
296 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown – the first woman ever to hold the position – and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political le...

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Women Studies

Of Mothers and Others Stories, Essays, Poems

Misra Jaishree

ISBN: HB: 9789381017869, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
284 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Taking care of our women and children builds not just a generation but the nation itself, writes the Indian film star Shabana Azmi in her introduction to this unique volume. We neglect mothers at our own peril, at the peril of society. If we are to l...

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Women Studies

Poetry

Mystic and the Lyric Four Women Poets from Kashmir

Mattoo Neerja

ISBN: HB: 9789385932717, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For the first time, "The Mystic and the Lyric" brings together the classic work of four women poets from Kashmir who have shaped its literary imagination: Lalded, Habba Khatun, Arnimal, and Rupa Bhavani. These women inhabit not just the collective me...

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Women Studies

Soviet Signoras Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration

Cvajner Martina

ISBN: PB: 9780226662398, ISBN: HB: 9780226662251, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and party systems. So often absent from these conversations...

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Jewish Studies

Women Studies

Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova

Freeze Chaeran Y.

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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