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Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova

Freeze Chaeran Y.

ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings

Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...

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Contemporary Art

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Cruising the Dead River David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront

Anderson Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780226603759, ISBN: HB: 9780226603612, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' se...

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Criminology

Linguistics

Discourse of Police Interviews

Mason Marianne, Rock Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780226647791, ISBN: HB: 9780226647654, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest. Yet books on the subject have predominantly been introductions to the field or aimed at summarizing its applications, often with a focus...

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Culture Studies

Criminology

Going All City Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture

Bloch Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9780226493589, ISBN: HB: 9780226493442, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

"We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard...

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Gender Studies

Gender and Governance Studies From South Asia

Kazi Seema

ISBN: HB: 9789385932403, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2019
400 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Gender and Governance" examines how different governance structures affect gender in five specific locations in South Asia: Swat in Pakistan, the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, the Northern Province in Sri Lanka, and Kashmir and Manipur in In...

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General

Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World

Ogborn Miles

ISBN: PB: 9780226657684, ISBN: HB: 9780226655925, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in "The Freedom of Speech", across the Anglo-Caribbean world the fundamental distinction b...

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Women Studies

Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers

Hussain Neelam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...

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America

General

Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

Gordon Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...

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Gender Studies

Crossing A Transgender Memoir

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226662565, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

"I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am". Once a golden boy of conservative economi...

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Gender Studies

Fear of Child Sexuality Young People, Sex, and Agency

Angelides Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226648637, ISBN: HB: 9780226648460, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Continued public outcries over such issues as young models in sexually suggestive ads and intimate relationships between teachers and students speak to one of the most controversial fears of our time: the entanglement of children and sexuality. In th...

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