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Women Studies

Sex and the Office A History of Gender, Power, and Desire

Berebitsky Julie

ISBN: HB: 9780300118995, Yale University Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this engaging book – the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace – Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes towards sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first too...

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Anthropology

General

Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Ramos-Zayas Ana Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...

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General

Roots of Radicalism Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090863, ISBN: HB: 9780226090849, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables

The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era – religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemper...

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Political Science

End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America

Kinder Donald R., Dale-Riddle Allison

ISBN: PB: 9780300175196, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in fact an important factor...

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Living Faith Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

Crawford Sullivan Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226781617, ISBN: HB: 9780226781600, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare...

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Urban Spaces after Socialism Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities

Darieva Tsypylma, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593393841, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
325 pp., 22x14 cm, 40 halftones

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Women of Byzantium

Connor Carolyn L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300186468, Yale University Press, January 2012
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the w...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Brintnall Kent L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...

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Gender Studies

Asia

Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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Political Science

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Disciplining the Poor Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Soss Joe, Fording Richard C., Schram Sanford F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226768779, ISBN: HB: 9780226768762, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 1 table, 45 line illus.

"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance – how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pu...

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