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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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Sign Language

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BUG Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution

Heuer Christopher John

ISBN: PB: 9781563683572, Gallaudet University Press, September 2007
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"What you have in your hands is a bomb. But it is the kind you need to hold on to for dear life, not run away from" – From the Foreword, John Lee Clark Christopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before "being able to hear a lot as a kid...

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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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Women Studies

World Apart and Other Stories Czech Women around the Turn of the 19th-20th century

Hayes Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9788024601663, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2001
204 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The book presents to the reader the first ever English translation of short stories, so far for no reason rather neglected, by Czech female authors at the turn of the 19th and 20th century...

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How To Survive Hearing Loss

Himber Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9781563680137, Gallaudet University Press, November 1989
241 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Charlotte Himber counts herself among 22 million Americans who have signficant hearing loss. Like 40 per cent of those with hearing loss, hers grew worse as she became older. In this book, she shares her first-hand experience, her feelings and the kn...

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