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Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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Anthropology

Islam

Ethnologia Europaea 46:1 Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9788763544870, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm

In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...

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Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Goldhill Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...

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Gender Studies

Ethno-erotic Economies Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

Meiu George Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226491172, ISBN: HB: 9780226491035, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

"Ethno-erotic Economies" explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars...

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General

Social Theory Now

Benzecry Claudio E., Krause Monika, Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226475288, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal "Social Theory Today". Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda cente...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

New Intimacies, Old Desires Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times

Sircar Oishik, Jain Dipika

ISBN: HB: 9789384757748, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
480 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the last fifteen years, great strides have been made in advancing the rights of queer people. In the same period that these victories have been secured by queer movements, we've seen the rise of crony capitalism, violent consequences of the war on...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 46 Reinventing American Criminal Justice

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226489407, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice" is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Fray Art and Textile Politics

Bryan-Wilson Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226077819, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour plates, 62 halftones

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile mak...

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Feminist Subversion and Complicity Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

Mukhopadhyay Maitrayee

ISBN: HB: 9789385932168, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Feminist Subversion and Complicity" brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who, while working at diverse kinds of institutions, are all closely involved in the intersection of development policy...

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America

Making the Unequal Metropolis School Desegregation and Its Limits

Erickson Ansley T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528915, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's "Making the Unequal Metropolis" presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school polici...

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