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Maternity Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300229158, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
400 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 500 colour illus.
On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...
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£70,00
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Working Woman's Handbook Ideas, Insights, and Inspiration for a Successful Creative Career
ISBN: HB: 9783791383149, Prestel Publishing, August 2017
176 pp., 19x13 cm, 130 black&white illus.
"The Working Woman's Handbook" is a detailed, practical guide that covers the spectrum of establishing and growing a self-made career: from choosing a path and finding clarity, to obtaining clients and setting up a workspace. Author Phoebe Lovatt off...
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£14,99
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Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...
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£30,00
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Fray Art and Textile Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780226077819, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour plates, 62 halftones
In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile mak...
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£41,50
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India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...
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£30,00
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Mothers of Manipur Twelve Women Who Made History
ISBN: HB: 9789384757762, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On July 15, 2004, twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, positioned themselves in front of the gates of the Kangla Fort in Manipur, India – the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. One by one, the women stripped the...
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£18,00
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Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration
ISBN: PB: 9781512600353, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law – such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation – have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of ob...
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£34,00
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Tough Enough Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
ISBN: PB: 9780226457802, ISBN: HB: 9780226457772, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories....
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Women of Honour Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia
ISBN: PB: 9781849048064, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. So who are they? Pure and virtuous Madonnas or dangerous Godmothers? Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life, women serve as the mafia's respect...
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£12,99
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