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Big Bosses A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
ISBN: PB: 9780226423623, ISBN: HB: 9780226423593, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones
Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, "Big Bosses", she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) empl...
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£11,50
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£34,00
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Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence The Right to Heal: Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India
ISBN: HB: 9789384757113, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
454 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence" elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and qu...
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£34,00
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Difficult Transition The Nepal Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932052, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its neighborhood. A "Difficult Transition" shows that, in addit...
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£34,00
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From Reverence to Rape The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226412894, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 57 halftones
A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's "From Reverence to Rape" remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to f...
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£20,50
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Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora? The Story of a Mass Rape
ISBN: PB: 9789384757663, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2016
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian army stormed into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. Incensed at the villagers' refusal to share any information, soldiers pulled...
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£14,50
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Gringo Gulch Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica
ISBN: PB: 9780226373416, ISBN: HB: 9780226373386, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table
The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men – men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical ine...
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£26,00
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£67,50
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Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence
ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...
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£18,00
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Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States
ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...
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£32,00
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Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights
ISBN: HB: 9780300186154, Yale University Press, June 2016
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
How can women's rights be seen as a universal value rather than a Western value imposed upon the rest of the world? Addressing this question, Eileen Hunt Botting offers the first comparative study of writings by Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mi...
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£65,00
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Emirati Women Generations of Change
ISBN: PB: 9781849046633, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The discovery of oil in the late 1960s catapulted the people of Abu Dhabi out of the isolating poverty into which it had plunged in the 1930s and onto the global stage. Massive construction projects built the city and infrastru...
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£12,99
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