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Soviet Signoras Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration
ISBN: PB: 9780226662398, ISBN: HB: 9780226662251, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and party systems. So often absent from these conversations...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Shirin Neshat I Will Greet the Sun Again
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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£42,50
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Song Walking Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9780226538013, ISBN: HB: 9780226537962, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
"Song Walking" explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey inv...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Surviving Biafra A Nigerwife's Story
ISBN: HB: 9781849049580, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1961, Rosina "Rose" Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves cau...
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£20,00
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Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...
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£30,00
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Season of Singing Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States
ISBN: PB: 9781611689600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach". Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewi...
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£32,00
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Story Larger than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers
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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£15,00
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£44,50
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Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War
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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£21,95
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Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917
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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£24,00
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£73,00
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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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