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Gender Studies
Women Studies
Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
Lindemann Danielle J.
ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.
Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...
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Culture Studies
Philosophy
Culture of Disaster
Huet Marie-Helene
ISBN: HB: 9780226358215, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones
From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared resp...
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Performing Arts
Culture Studies
Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life
Gross Kenneth
ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.
The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...
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World
Culture Studies
Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
Klemek Christopher
ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones
"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...
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Gender Studies
Culture Studies
Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
Reddy William M.
ISBN: PB: 9780226706276, ISBN: HB: 9780226706269, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm
In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a...
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General
Culture Studies
Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles
Deener Andrew
ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones
Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...
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General
Culture Studies
Beauty and the Beast
Taussig Michael
ISBN: PB: 9780226789866, ISBN: HB: 9780226789859, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 36 halftones
"Beauty and the Beast" begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their b...
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Culture Studies
Philosophy
Another Freedom The Alternative History of an Idea
Boym Svetlana
ISBN: PB: 9780226069746, ISBN: HB: 9780226069739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line illus.
The word "freedom" is in danger of becoming a distorted and tired cliche. In "Another Freedom", Svetlana Boym explores the rich cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece through the present day, suggesting that...
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Photography
Culture Studies
Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence
Linfield Susie
ISBN: PB: 9780226482514, ISBN: HB: 9780226482507, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images – and lea...
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Architecture
Culture Studies
Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America
Doss Erika
ISBN: PB: 9780226159416, ISBN: HB: 9780226159386, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
480 pp., 23x15 cm, 161 halftones
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally...
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