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Women Studies

Picturing Political Power Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement

Lange Allison K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226703244, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 105 halftones

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images – whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been fl...

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Public Health

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Plague Years A Doctor's Journey through the AIDS Crisis

Slotten Ross A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226718767, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten had the dubious distinction of signing more death certificates in the city of Chicago – and, by inference, the state of Illinois – than any other physician. As a family physician, he trained to care for patients from birt...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)

Wells Ida B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...

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Criminology

Beyond the Usual Beating The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago

Baer Andrew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226700472, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

The malign and long-lasting influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated, particularly as fresh examples of local and national criminal-justice abuse continue to surface with dismaying frequency. Burge's decades-long tenure...

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Europe

General

Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland

Engelstein Laura

ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...

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General

Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Third Edition)

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643939, ISBN: HB: 9780226683638, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones

For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholar...

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Education

General

Ghosts in the Schoolyard Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

Ewing Eve L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226526164, ISBN: HB: 9780226526027, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

"Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools". That's how Eve L. Ewing opens "Ghosts in the Schoolyard": describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other sc...

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Poetry

Women Studies

Eleanor

Jacobik Gray

ISBN: PB: 9781933880754, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...

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Law

General

Union by Law Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism

McCann Michael W., Lovell George I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226679907, ISBN: HB: 9780226679877, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethni...

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Women Studies

Midlife Crisis The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliche

Schmidt Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226637143, ISBN: HB: 9780226686851, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

The phrase "midlife crisis" today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility – an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age – but before it became a gendered cliche, it gained traction as a f...

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