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Gender, Religion, and Family Law Theorizing Conflicts between Women's Rights and Cultural Traditions
ISBN: PB: 9781611683264, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equality within marriage and rights in the distribution of family property and child custody upon divorce, are in conflict with the principles of religiou...
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£32,00
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Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.
Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Elizabeth and Hazel Two Women of Little Rock
ISBN: PB: 9780300187922, Yale University Press, September 2012
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 33 black&white illus.
<p>The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white...
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£12,99
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Self-Determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies
ISBN: PB: 9781611682809, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2012
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessaril...
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£28,00
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Fertility and Jewish Law Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature
ISBN: HB: 9781611682397, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2012
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai exami...
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£68,00
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Mom The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America
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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£19,00
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£37,50
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Sex and the Office A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
ISBN: HB: 9780300118995, Yale University Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
In this engaging book – the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace – Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes towards sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first too...
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£50,00
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Women of Byzantium
ISBN: PB: 9780300186468, Yale University Press, January 2012
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.
Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the w...
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£40,00
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