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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Chanda Geetanjali Singh

ISBN: PB: 9789383074730, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
348 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm

In her detailed readings of a wide range of Indian writers – including Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Anita Nair, Jhumpa Lahiri and many others – Geetanjali Singh Chanda focuses on domestic spaces in women's fiction. The house is not merely a backdro...

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Abductive Analysis Theorizing Qualitative Research

Tavory Iddo, Timmermans Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226180311, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

In "Abductive Analysis", Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory formation without locking it int...

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Asia

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

Wemheuer Felix

ISBN: HB: 9780300195811, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist era famines, in which ov...

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Tamil Brahmans The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

Fuller C. J., Narasimhan Haripriya

ISBN: PB: 9780226152745, ISBN: HB: 9780226152608, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 tables

A cruise along the streets of Chennai – or Silicon Valley – filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic...

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Renegade Dreams Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Laurence Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226032719, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables

Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city" and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our foc...

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Trapped in America's Safety Net One Family's Struggle

Campbell Andrea Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226140445, ISBN: HB: 9780226140308, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 figures, 1 table

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived – and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends....

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Gender Studies

Not Tonight Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health

Kempner Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226179155, ISBN: HB: 9780226179018, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Pain. Vomiting. Hours and days spent lying in the dark. Migraine is an extraordinarily common, disabling, and painful disorder that affects over 36 million Americans and costs the US economy at least $32 billion per year. Nevertheless, it is frequent...

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Becoming Mead The Social Process of Academic Knowledge

Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226171401, ISBN: HB: 9780226171371, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book "Mind, Self, and Society", which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however...

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Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters A New Paradigm

Hauser Peter C., Finch Karen L., Hauser Angela B.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685675, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 2 tables, 17 figures

"Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters: A New Paradigm" defines a new model that depends upon strong partnerships between the growing number of deaf experts and their interpreters. Editors Peter C. Hauser, Karen L. Finch, and Angela B. Hause...

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Gender Studies

Business of Sex

Murthy Laxmi, Seshu Saraswathi

ISBN: HB: 9789381017814, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2014
236 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, "The Business of Sex" corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and...

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