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Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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Sign Language

General

Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Burch Susan, Kafer Alison

ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...

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Gender Studies

Capital Affairs London and the Making of the Permissive Society

Mort Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780300118797, Yale University Press, June 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus., 6 colour illus.

Did Britain's permissive society start with swinging London? This exciting new account of 1950s London challenges the sexual myth of the 1960s, arguing that its roots lay further back in the city's dramatic cultures of austerity and affluence that ma...

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General

Belonging in an Adopted World Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption

Yngvesson Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226964478, ISBN: HB: 9780226964461, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 9 tables, 16 halftones

Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging in an Adopted World", Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implica...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Mother's Work How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life

Gilbert Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300164619, Yale University Press, May 2010
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Collins Jane L., Mayer Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226114064, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 line drawings, 3 tables, 16 halftones

"Both Hands Tied" studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisc...

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Criminology

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Criminal Intimacy Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

Kunzel Regina

ISBN: PB: 9780226462271, ISBN: HB: 9780226462264, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line illus.

Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers – as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historica...

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Criminology

Last Words of the Executed

Elder Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226202686, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour – and only they can be sure that their last words will be...

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Women Studies

Natalia Shelikhova Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce

Black Dawn Lea, Petrov Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781602230736, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2010
250 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American...

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Philosophy

Women Studies

Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings

Suchon Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226779218, ISBN: HB: 9780226779201, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's wri...

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