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Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society

Katzer Nikolaus, Budy Sandra, Kohring Alexandra, Zeller Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

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Sectarianism in Iraq Antagonistic Visions of Unity

Haddad Fanar

ISBN: PB: 9781849041287, Hurst Publishers, March 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Viewing Iraq from the outside is made easier by compartmentalising its people (at least the Arabs among them) into Shi'as and Sunnis. But can such broad terms, inherently resistant to accurate quantification, description and de...

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Gender Studies

Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

Schilt Kristen

ISBN: PB: 9780226738079, ISBN: HB: 9780226738055, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables

The fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious...

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Gender Studies

Guilty Males and Proud Females Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival

Ferrari Fabrizio

ISBN: HB: 9781906497521, Seagull Books, February 2011
268 pp., 23.9x16.3 cm, 13 halftones

"Guilty Males and Proud Females" is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy – the marriage of a god and goddes...

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Political Science

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Cloning Terror The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532608, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
240 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 38 halftones, 8 colour illus.

The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, a...

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Music

Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Women Studies

Anthropology

Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar

Cole Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226113319, ISBN: HB: 9780226113302, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 14 halftones

"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered t...

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Jewish Studies

Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust

Hedgepeth Sonja M., Saidel Rochelle G.

ISBN: PB: 9781584659051, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2010
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women's experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous stud...

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Gender Studies

Law of Love From Autonomy to Communion

Brett Stephen F.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662070, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
180 pp., 21.5x13 cm

With an interdisciplinary combination of philosophy, theology, and family law, "The Law of Love" explores the impact of secular conceptions of autonomy on sexuality and family. Drawing from the thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and th...

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Women Studies

Butterfly's Sisters The Geisha in Western Culture

Kawaguchi Yoko

ISBN: HB: 9780300115215, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women – and geishas in particular – from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embo...

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