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Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish
ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...
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£40,00
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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...
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£39,00
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Until Choice Do Us Part Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226085838, ISBN: HB: 9780226085661, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
For centuries, people have been thinking and writing – and fiercely debating – about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a too...
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£24,00
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£69,00
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Tristan's Shadow Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner
ISBN: HB: 9780226082134, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...
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£39,00
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Sexual Fields Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226084992, ISBN: HB: 9780226084855, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table
In the late modern period, an unprecedented expansion of specialized erotic worlds has transformed the domain of intimate life. Organized by appetites and dispositions related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and age, these erotic worlds are arenas...
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£24,00
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£73,00
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End of Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...
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£7,00
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We are the Roma! One Thousand Years of Discrimination
ISBN: PB: 9780857420381, Seagull Books, December 2013
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm
The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with significant populations in the Balkan Peninsula as well as Spain, France, Russia, and the Ukraine. Persecution of the Roma d...
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Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929
ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...
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Civil Disobedience An American Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300124590, Yale University Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, th...
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Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226104461, ISBN: HB: 9780226798608, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm – one that has affecte...
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£42,00
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