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Gender Studies

Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India

Hoenig Patrick, Singh Navsharan

ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...

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Gender Studies

Music

Tigers of a Different Stripe Performing Gender in Dominican Music

Hutchinson Sydney

ISBN: PB: 9780226405469, ISBN: HB: 9780226405322, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

"Tigers of a Different Stripe" takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue tipico they...

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Gender Studies

Of the Nation Born The Bangladesh Papers

Hossain Hameeda, Mohsin Amena

ISBN: HB: 9789384757793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, "Of the Nation Born" takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on...

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History of Art

Gender Studies

25 Women Essays on Their Art

Hickey Dave

ISBN: HB: 9780226333151, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
192 pp., 22x18.4 cm, 26 colour plates, 1 halftone

Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging". Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer". Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero". There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey – and...

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Gender Studies

Gentlemen's Disagreement Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men

Hegarty Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226024585, ISBN: HB: 9780226024448, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 halftone, 3 line illus.

What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and of human sexuality in the United States have been increasingly common – and hotly debated. But rarely ha...

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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

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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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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Europe

Gender Studies

Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent

Healey Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226322346, University of Chicago Press, October 2001
376 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 5 tables

The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, "Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia" investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik R...

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