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Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality A Sourcebook
ISBN: PB: 9781584657309, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2008
404 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Much has changed for Jewish women since the first edition of Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality appeared in 1992. Associations of Jewish women – academic, religious, secular – have proliferated, making the women's voices heard. In collecti...
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£28,00
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Moved by Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9780226752884, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
320 pp., 24.9x17.5 cm, 63 halftones
In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual devianc...
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£25,00
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Anthropology in the East Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9781905422784, ISBN: HB: 9781905422777, Seagull Books, September 2008
568 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm
Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is little research available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines or on the practices of pioneering anthropolog...
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£30,00
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£82,50
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Censoring Sexuality
ISBN: HB: 9781905422562, Seagull Books, May 2008
160 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Despite Western culture's roots and much touted pride in its classical Greek and Roman legacy, the sexual freedoms of the ancient world have had no place in the official cultures of Western societies. As late as the 19th Century, homosexuality was th...
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£15,00
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Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism Resistance and Accommodation
ISBN: PB: 9781584656593, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2008
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
University professor and social activist Tova Hartman, discouraged by failed attempts to make her modern Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem more inclusive of women, together with other worshippers, set about creating their own own, Shira Hadasha ("a new...
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£16,00
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How to be a Good Husband
ISBN: HB: 9781851243761, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2008
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books.Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns de...
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£4,99
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How to be a Good Wife
ISBN: HB: 9781851243815, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2008
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books.Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns delig...
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£4,99
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Tormented by History Nationalism in Greece and Turkey
ISBN: PB: 9781850658993, ISBN: HB: 9781850659051, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...
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£18,99
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£40,00
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