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Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...
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£32,00
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No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy
ISBN: PB: 9789384757687, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2015
287 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? "No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy" answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the fe...
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£19,00
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Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...
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£40,00
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Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...
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£65,00
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Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies
ISBN: HB: 9789383074525, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women's bodies. Viewed...
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£28,00
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That Monstrous Regiment The Birth of Women's Political Emancipation
ISBN: PB: 9781861513137, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, June 2015
268 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man's wo...
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£12,99
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Food Guide for Womens Soccer Tips & Recipes from the Pros
ISBN: PB: 9781782550518, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, June 2015
256 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 41 tables
This handy "how-to" food guide addresses the nutrition questions and concerns of soccer athletes of all ages and abilities to help them achieve success with energy to spare. Soccer athletes are hungry for good nutrition information. They have lots of...
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£14,95
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Babe
ISBN: HB: 9783791381039, Prestel Publishing, May 2015
192 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 166 colour illus.
Curated by one of today's most sought-after photographers, this collection of work by young female artists captures the voices and visions that are shaping a generation of women. 21-year-old Canadian photographer Petra Collins is leading the way in...
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£19,99
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Girls Guide to Basic Survival
ISBN: HB: 9781742575681, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2015
192 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm
"A Girl's Guide to Basic Survival" is every girl's essential reference guide of all those things your mother never taught you – or that you chose not to listen to. It's a practical hands-on, down-to-earth guide focusing on those every day household p...
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£12,99
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