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Culture Studies

Thug Life Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop

Jeffries Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226395852, ISBN: HB: 9780226395845, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones

Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States,...

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Gender Studies

Law of Love From Autonomy to Communion

Brett Stephen F.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662070, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
180 pp., 21.5x13 cm

With an interdisciplinary combination of philosophy, theology, and family law, "The Law of Love" explores the impact of secular conceptions of autonomy on sexuality and family. Drawing from the thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, and th...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Slumming Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Heap Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226322445, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 maps, 19 halftones

During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze", recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop".Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner", and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, an...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Bodies of Knowledge Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave

Kline Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226443089, ISBN: HB: 9780226443058, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In "Bodies of Knowledge", Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the fema...

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Philosophy

Women Studies

Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings

Suchon Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226779218, ISBN: HB: 9780226779201, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's wri...

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Gender Studies

Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226043548, ISBN: HB: 9780226043524, University of Chicago Press, December 2009
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...

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Gender Studies

Jewish Studies

Gender and American Jews Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life

Hartman Harriet, Hartman Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781584657569, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2009
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Gender and American Jews", Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman interpret the results of the two most recent National Jewish Population Surveys. Building on their critical work in "Gender Equality and American Jews" (1996), and drawing on relevant s...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Queering the Underworld Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History

Herring Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226327914, ISBN: HB: 9780226327907, University of Chicago Press, December 2007
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing

At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid detai...

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Gender Studies

Political Science

Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

Rimmerman Craig A., Wilcox Clyde

ISBN: PB: 9780226720012, University of Chicago Press, October 2007
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

Same-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season. But in a severe blow to gay rights advocates, all eleven states that had the issue on the ballot passed amendments banning the practice, and the subject soon dropp...

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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Invention of Heterosexuality

Katz Jonathan Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226426013, University of Chicago Press, June 2007
305 pp., 21.2x15.5 cm, 1 haltone

"Heterosexuality", assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and h...

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