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Moral Neoliberal Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

Muehlebach Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9780226545400, ISBN: HB: 9780226545394, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neol...

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Europe

Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New

Kete Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300174823, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities – Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier – Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionali...

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Modernity Bluff Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire

Newell Sasha

ISBN: PB: 9780226575209, ISBN: HB: 9780226575193, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand na...

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Women Studies

Mom The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America

Plant Rebecca Jo

ISBN: PB: 9780226670225, ISBN: HB: 9780226670201, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm

In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixt...

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Political Science

Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf

Kamrava Mehran, Babar Zahra

ISBN: PB: 9781849042109, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the...

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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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Jewish Studies

Gender Studies

Men's Section Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World

Maryles Sztokman Elana

ISBN: PB: 9781611680799, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2011
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this illuminating book, Elana Maryles Sztokman investigates a fascinating new sociological phenomenon: Orthodox Jewish men who connect themselves to egalitarian or quasi-egalitarian religious enterprises. She examines the men who have enabled thes...

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Marriage and Cohabitation

Thornton Arland, Axinn William G., Xie Yu

ISBN: PB: 9780226798677, ISBN: HB: 9780226798660, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 16 line illus.

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women...

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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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History of Art

Moved by Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France

Sheriff Mary D.

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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