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Foot in the Door Dalit Women in Panchayati Raj in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu
ISBN: HB: 9789385932939, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their political oppression. The authors examine the patri...
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£28,00
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Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women
ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...
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£12,00
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Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague Causes, Contexts and Prospects
ISBN: PB: 9788024645254, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situa...
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£16,00
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How Green Became Good Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
ISBN: PB: 9780226739045, ISBN: HB: 9780226738994, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developme...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Off Limits New Writings on Fear and Sin
ISBN: PB: 9781909942479, ISBN: HB: 9781909942431, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
171 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from "Woman at Point Zero" to "The Fall of the...
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£9,99
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£14,99
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Dynastic Imagination Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780226737874, ISBN: HB: 9780226737737, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mec...
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£76,00
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Queer Legacies Stories from Chicago's LGBTQ Archives
ISBN: PB: 9780226727530, ISBN: HB: 9780226664972, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The variety of gay life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse, to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerbert/Hart Library & Archives on the city's North Side has strived to do just that, amassing and cataloging a wealth of recor...
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£76,00
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Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation
ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...
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Hidden Path
ISBN: PB: 9780997228786, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, October 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following...
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Reforms and Retirement Incentives
ISBN: HB: 9780226674100, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 558 line drawings, 33 tables
This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of pension reform on employment at older ages. In the two decades since th...
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