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Roots of Radicalism Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090863, ISBN: HB: 9780226090849, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables

The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era – religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemper...

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Living Faith Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

Crawford Sullivan Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226781617, ISBN: HB: 9780226781600, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare...

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Urban Spaces after Socialism Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Darieva Tsypylma, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593393841, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
325 pp., 22x14 cm, 40 halftones

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Brintnall Kent L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...

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Asia

Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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Disciplining the Poor Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Soss Joe, Fording Richard C., Schram Sanford F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226768779, ISBN: HB: 9780226768762, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 1 table, 45 line illus.

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance – how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pu...

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Christianity

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Seeking the Straight and Narrow Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America

Gerber Lynne

ISBN: PB: 9780226288123, ISBN: HB: 9780226288116, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals – and that God will provide reliable paths towar...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Nuptial Deal Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance

Whitehead Jaye Cee

ISBN: PB: 9780226895291, ISBN: HB: 9780226895284, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. Centering on the everyday struggles...

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America

Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain

Peel Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...

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Education

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Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite

Beasley Maya A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...

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