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Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence
ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...
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£18,00
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Of the Nation Born The Bangladesh Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789384757793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, "Of the Nation Born" takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on...
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£26,50
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Doing Time with Nehru The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family
ISBN: PB: 9789384757809, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 10 halftones, 8 line drawings, 10 maps
It's midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, "We're coming in! Get on the floor!" A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men, disappearing into the night. This scenario is the...
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£11,50
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Revathi A Life in Trans Activism
ISBN: PB: 9789384757755, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A. Revathi's memoir "The Truth about Me" became a sensation in India when it was published in 2011. The pathbreaking autobiography told the story of Revathi's childhood uneasiness with her male body, her exile to a house of "hijras" (the South Asian...
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£14,50
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Vikram and the Vampire
ISBN: PB: 9789384757649, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2016
124 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 18 halftones
King Vikram has a devil of a dilemma! In order to gain power and wealth beyond his wildest dreams, he must deliver a corpse to the sorcerer Shaitanish. The only problem with this simple task is that this particular corpse is home to Betal – an impish...
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£9,00
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Ragdoll for my Heart
ISBN: PB: 9789383074099, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, December 2015
142 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
First published in 1966 by award-winning Marathi writer Anuradha Vaidya, "A Ragdoll for My Heart" is a unique free verse novella now making its English debut. The lyrical work, translated by Shruti Nargundkar, tells an age-old story: that of a woman'...
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£11,50
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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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Partition The Long Shadow
ISBN: HB: 9789383074778, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2015
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 halftones
The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are still felt today in the everyday lives of people in all...
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£34,00
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Younguncle in the Himalayas
ISBN: PB: 9788189013394, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
148 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 12 halftones
Vandana Singh's first book, "Younguncle Comes to Town", was an instant classic of children's literature. Now, in this highly anticipated follow-up, Younguncle finds himself on an adventure in the mountains of India. In "Younguncle in the Himalayas",...
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£9,00
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Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies
ISBN: HB: 9789383074525, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women's bodies. Viewed...
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£28,00
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