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Women Studies

Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States

Ross Sarah M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...

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Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Revathi A Life in Trans Activism

Revathi A., Murali Nandini

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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Criminology

Middle East Drugs Bazaar Production, Prevention and Consumption

Robins Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781849042819, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Middle East is intimately involved in the issue of illegal drugs which affects all the countries of the region: as a cultivator (Morocco, Lebanon); transit hub (Iran, Turkey); and consumer (Egypt). Yet, until now, there has...

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Genetics

Gender Studies

Sex Itself The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

Richardson Sarah S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325613, ISBN: HB: 9780226084688, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 11 line drawings

Human genomes are 99. 9 percent identical – with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret

Rupp Leila J., Taylor Verta

ISBN: PB: 9780226326566, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled...

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General

Sociology of Modern China

Rocca Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781849043533, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise "Sociology of Modern China" wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society in little more than a 130 pages, all the while avoiding cliches and s...

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History of Art

Architecture

Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India

Ruggles D. Fairchild

ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones

Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...

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Anthropology

General

Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia

Rottger-Rossler Birgitt, Stodulka Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9783593500058, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

"Feelings at the Margins" offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional impact on affected individuals and groups. By combining anthropological, political, and historical per...

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General

American Lynching

Rushdy Ashraf H. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205879, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined in order to understand this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the U...

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Gender Studies

Education

Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools

Rosenfeld Gorsetman Chaya, Maryles Sztokman Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...

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