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Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

Pierre Jemima

ISBN: PB: 9780226923031, ISBN: HB: 9780226923024, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking "The Predicament of Blackness" is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa...

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Women Studies

Law

Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions

Fishbayn Joffe Lisa, Neil Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611683264, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religiou...

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Culture Studies

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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...

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Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Education

Gender Studies

Sex Education Debates

Kendall Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922287, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 6 tables

Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for...

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Jewish Studies

Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State Israel's Civil War

Weiss Susan M., Gross-Horowitz Netty C.

ISBN: HB: 9781611683639, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of...

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Evolution

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Fair Society The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Corning Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226004358, ISBN: HB: 9780226116273, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power – and more, the duty – to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us t...

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Political Science

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Awakening to Race Individualism and Social Consciousness in America

Turner Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226817125, ISBN: HB: 9780226817118, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

The election of America's first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeki...

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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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Letting Stories Breathe A Socio-Narratology

Frank Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004839, ISBN: HB: 9780226260136, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us – they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can al...

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