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Women Studies

Story Larger than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers

Burroway Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780226014104, ISBN: HB: 9780226014074, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the "Saturday Evening Post".Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine – but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work....

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Gender Studies

Sexual Fields Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life

Green Adam Isaiah

ISBN: PB: 9780226084992, ISBN: HB: 9780226084855, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas...

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Africa

General

Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Surgical Temptation The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Darby Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226101101, ISBN: HB: 9780226136455, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfun...

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Aviation

Women Studies

Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War

Milanetti Gian Piero

ISBN: PB: 9788875651466, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2013
280 pp., 24x17 cm, 505 black&white illus.

A pictorial history on the contribution that Soviet airwomen brought to the II World War. The Author retraces meticulously the role that these young women played during what they called themselves the "Great patriotic War". He went several times to R...

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Women Studies

Media Studies

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917

Soderlund Gretchen

ISBN: PB: 9780226021539, ISBN: HB: 9780226021362, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 line illus.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this repre...

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Political Science

General

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Swartz David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226925011, ISBN: HB: 9780226925004, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career,...

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Criminology

Culture Studies

Subject of Murder Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

Downing Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226003542, ISBN: HB: 9780226003405, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen – a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart f...

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Culture Studies

General

SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...

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Education

Gender Studies

Sex Education Debates

Kendall Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922287, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 6 tables

Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for...

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