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Women Studies

Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers

Hussain Neelam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...

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Women Studies

Asia

Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426154, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Dangerous Outcast" traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

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History

Women Studies

Dante and the Early Astronomer Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens

Daugherty Tracy

ISBN: HB: 9780300239898, Yale University Press, June 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's "Divine Comedy". Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as ins...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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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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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

Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora? The Story of a Mass Rape

Mushtaq Samreen, Batool Essar, Rather Natasha, Butt Ifrah, Rashid Munaza

ISBN: PB: 9789384757663, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2016
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian army stormed into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. Incensed at the villagers' refusal to share any information, soldiers pulled...

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Europe

Women Studies

Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance

Hurlburt Holly S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...

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Women Studies

Dalit Women Speak Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India

Irudayam Aloysius S. J., Mangubhai Jayshree P., Lee Joel G.

ISBN: PB: 9789383074761, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
466 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

The right to equality regardless of gender or caste is fundamental in India. Yet even the Indian government has acknowledged that the institutional forces arrayed against this right are powerful – and, what's more, that they shape people's mindsets i...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Disturbing Practices History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War

Doan Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226001616, ISBN: HB: 9780226001586, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line illus.

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet or...

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