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Until Choice Do Us Part Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era

Eby Clare Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9780226085838, ISBN: HB: 9780226085661, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

For centuries, people have been thinking and writing – and fiercely debating – about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a too...

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Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life

Thornton Arland

ISBN: PB: 9780226104461, ISBN: HB: 9780226798608, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps

European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm – one that has affecte...

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Job-Search Games Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences

Sharone Ofer

ISBN: PB: 9780226073538, ISBN: HB: 9780226073361, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

Today 4. 7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it's above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent....

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Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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Unwanted Child The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany

Harrington Joel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102054, ISBN: HB: 9780226317274, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones, 9 line drawings

The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society".The Unwanted Child" skill...

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Politics of Belonging Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration

Masuoka Natalie, Junn Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226057163, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 15 tables

The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Questions about who should be admitted and what benefits should be afforded to new members of the polity are among the most divisive and controversial contemporary political i...

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Black Picket Fences, Second Edition Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Pattillo Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226021195, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's "Black Picket Fences" explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a...

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American Allegory Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination

Black Hawk Hancock

ISBN: PB: 9780226043104, ISBN: HB: 9780226043074, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm

"Perhaps",‌ wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power". ‌ As Ellison noted then, many of our most munda...

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Everyday Law on the Street City Governance in an Age of Diversity

Valverde Mariana

ISBN: PB: 9780226921907, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm

Toronto prides itself on being "the world's most diverse city", and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, lim...

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Reasons of Conscience The Bioethics Debate in Germany

Sperling Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226924328, ISBN: HB: 9780226924311, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm

The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In "Rea...

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