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Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979
ISBN: HB: 9780226493275, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked. ? "Sex, France, and Arab Men" is a history of how an...
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Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands
ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...
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Constellations of Inequality Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
ISBN: PB: 9780226499260, ISBN: HB: 9780226499123, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 map
In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with di...
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How Places Make Us Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780226361253, ISBN: HB: 9780226361116, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 11 tables
We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this no...
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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China
ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables
In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...
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Normality A Critical Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...
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Crime and Justice, Volume 45 Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-National Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226440804, ISBN: HB: 9780226440774, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Sentencing Policies and Practices in Western Countries: Comparative and Cross-national Perspectives" is the forty-fifth addition to the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Thomas Weigend on criminal sentencing in Germany since 2000; Julia...
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To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria
ISBN: PB: 9780226491653, ISBN: HB: 9780226491516, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Refrains about financial hardship are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed through the idiom "to be a man is not a one-day job". But while men talk constantly about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns abo...
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Mana of Mass Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226436258, ISBN: HB: 9780226436111, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In "The Mana of Mass Society", William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our under...
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Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs
ISBN: PB: 9780226492636, ISBN: HB: 9780226492469, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression".Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" investigates the tenacity and cultura...
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