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Reasons of Conscience The Bioethics Debate in Germany

Sperling Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226924328, ISBN: HB: 9780226924311, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm

The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In "Rea...

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Women Studies

Our Pictures, Our Words A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement

Murthy Laxmi, Dasgupta Rajashri

ISBN: PB: 9789381017258, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 300 colour illus.

Vibrant, dynamic, spirited, and forceful. The contemporary women's movement in India, which began in the late 1970s, fought valiantly against dark times marked by violence and misogyny. But it also celebrated – liberation, solidarity among women, and...

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Women Studies

Women Changing India

Butalia Urvashi, Roy Anita

ISBN: HB: 9788189884970, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

India is changing. And at the heart of this change are its women. The change is widespread and varied, individual and collective, reflecting the full spectrum of women's lives, whether in politics or in economics, in business, or within their daily d...

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Criminology

Black Child-Savers Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice

Ward Geoff K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226873183, ISBN: HB: 9780226873169, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones, 8 tables, 1 line illus.

During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufact...

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General

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Swartz David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226925011, ISBN: HB: 9780226925004, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career,...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Disturbing Practices History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War

Doan Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226001616, ISBN: HB: 9780226001586, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line illus.

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet or...

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Gender Studies

America

West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930

Mitchell Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226532691, ISBN: HB: 9780226532684, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In "West of Sex", Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and crim...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 41 Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226009674, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United St...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Fabulous Feminist A Suniti Namjoshi Reader

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789381017333, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2013
252 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"The Fabulous Feminist" brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, "Feminist Fables", and including excerpts from "Saint Suniti and...

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Women Studies

Europe

Panaceia's Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: HB: 9780226925387, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 15 halftones

"Panaceia's Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicin...

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