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Women Studies

Midlife Crisis The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliche

Schmidt Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9780226637143, ISBN: HB: 9780226686851, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

The phrase "midlife crisis" today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility – an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age – but before it became a gendered cliche, it gained traction as a f...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

Shirin Neshat I Will Greet the Sun Again

Schad Ed

ISBN: HB: 9783791358758, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 28x23 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

In the 1990s, Shirin Neshat's startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen vid...

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Women Studies

Voices and Values The Politics of Feminist Evaluation

Sudarshan Ratna, Nandi Rajib

ISBN: HB: 9789385932397, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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Fiction

Women Studies

Centrepiece Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India

Singh Parismita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932410, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, June 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, colour illus. throughout

Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the northeast". Many stereotype it as a region of conflict...

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Women Studies

Law

Difficult Transition The Nepal Papers

Sharma Mandira, Tamang Seira

ISBN: HB: 9789385932052, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its neighborhood. A "Difficult Transition" shows that, in addit...

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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Shilo Margalit

ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy

Shah Chaynika, Merchant Raj, Mahajan Shalini, Nevatia Smriti

ISBN: PB: 9789384757687, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2015
287 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? "No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy" answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the fe...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sarojini N., Marwah Vrinda

ISBN: HB: 9789383074525, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women's bodies. Viewed...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

That Monstrous Regiment The Birth of Women's Political Emancipation

Stone Harry

ISBN: PB: 9781861513137, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, June 2015
268 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man's wo...

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