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Naked Truth Viennese Modernism and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9780226669984, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...
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£36,00
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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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Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India
ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm
From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...
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£22,50
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Natalia Shelikhova Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce
ISBN: PB: 9781602230736, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2010
250 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones
This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American...
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