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Fertility and Jewish Law Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature

Irshai Ronit

ISBN: HB: 9781611682397, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2012
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai exami...

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Law

Not Just Roommates Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

Pleck Elizabeth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671048, ISBN: HB: 9780226671031, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 15 halftones

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In "Not Just Roommates", Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed...

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Anthropology

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Modernity Bluff Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire

Newell Sasha

ISBN: PB: 9780226575209, ISBN: HB: 9780226575193, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand na...

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Business & Economics

Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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America

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Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

O'Malley Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226629384, ISBN: HB: 9780226629377, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of G...

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Declining Significance of Race Blacks and Changing American Institutions (Third Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901411, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

When first published in 1980, "The Declining Significance of Race" immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This new edition of the...

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Truly Disadvantaged The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Second Edition)

Wilson William Julius

ISBN: PB: 9780226901268, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 13 line illus.

Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life i...

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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Yack Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226944678, ISBN: HB: 9780226944661, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Nationalism is one of modern history's great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of...

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Women Studies

Mom The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America

Plant Rebecca Jo

ISBN: PB: 9780226670225, ISBN: HB: 9780226670201, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 23x15 cm

In the early twentieth-century United States, to speak of "mother love" was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixt...

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Political Science

Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf

Kamrava Mehran, Babar Zahra

ISBN: PB: 9781849042109, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the...

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