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Gender Studies

Making Kin not Population Reconceiving Generations

Clarke Adele, Haraway Donna

ISBN: PB: 9780996635561, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, May 2018
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Pathways of Desire The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men

Carrillo Hector

ISBN: PB: 9780226517735, ISBN: HB: 9780226508177, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings

With "Pathways of Desire", Hector Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attent...

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Sign Language

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Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s

Carty Breda

ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos

This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...

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Political Science

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Syria The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

Chatty Dawn

ISBN: HB: 9781849048767, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Normality A Critical Genealogy

Cryle Peter, Stephens Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...

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Sign Language

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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals

Cawthon Stephanie W., Garberoglio Carrie Lou

ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.

In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Maternity Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa

Cole Herbert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229158, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
400 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 500 colour illus.

On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...

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Fault Lines of History The India Papers II

Chakravarti Uma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932083, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
326 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Fault Lines of History" is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when it comes to the violation of human and civil right...

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Fiction

Women Studies

India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...

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Varieties of Social Imagination

Celarent Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780226433967, ISBN: HB: 9780226433820, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In July 2009, the "American Journal of Sociology" (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provi...

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