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Women Studies

Dalit Women Speak Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India

Irudayam Aloysius S. J., Mangubhai Jayshree P., Lee Joel G.

ISBN: PB: 9789383074761, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
466 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

The right to equality regardless of gender or caste is fundamental in India. Yet even the Indian government has acknowledged that the institutional forces arrayed against this right are powerful – and, what's more, that they shape people's mindsets i...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 42 Crime and Justice in America: 1975-2025

Tonry Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226105925, ISBN: HB: 9780226097510, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For the American criminal justice system, 1975 was a watershed year. Offender rehabilitation and individualized sentencing fell from favor. The partisan politics of "law and order" took over. Among the results four decades later are the world's harsh...

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Women Studies

We Also Made History Women in the Ambedkarite Movement

Pawar Urmila, Moon Meenakshi

ISBN: PB: 9789383074747, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
372 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 8 halftones

Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of women's participation in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Dalit movement for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early...

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Women Studies

Genderscapes Revisioning Natural Resource Management

Krishna Sumi

ISBN: PB: 9789383074754, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
476 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

Even in a realm that would seem to be as far removed from issues of gender as natural resource management, gender bias is pernicious and persistent, especially in India. Genderscapes looks at the reasons for this bias from a number of angles, includi...

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General

Children of the Land Adversity and Success in Rural America

Elder Glen H., Conger Rand D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212531, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
394 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 37 line drawings, 56 tables

A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age...

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Homelessness as an Alternative Existence of Young People

Vagnerova Marie, Csemy Ladislav, Marek Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024625171, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
320 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 27 line drawings, 2 maps, 79 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The chronically homeless face a stark reality: lack of access to support systems, adequate shelter, and sustenance, with little hope for something better. For young people, however, life o...

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History of Art

Architecture

Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India

Ruggles D. Fairchild

ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones

Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...

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Gender Studies

Mirror of the Self Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: PB: 9780226211725, ISBN: HB: 9780226038353, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone – or oneself – was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic ele...

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Women Studies

Fear That Stalks Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces

Pilot Sara, Prabhu Lora

ISBN: PB: 9789383074723, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
338 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

What are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space"‌ – and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women, but also the poor, transgender people, and others...

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Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery

DeGloma Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table

The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...

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