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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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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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Deaf Interpreters at Work International Insights

Adam Robert, Stone Christopher, Collins Steven D., Metzger Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9781563686092, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Now, for the first time, a collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars depicts the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights presents the history of Deaf translators a...

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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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Deaf Children in China

Callaway Alison

ISBN: PB: 9781563683398, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

To learn how Chinese parents raise their deaf children, Alison Callaway in 1994 conducted extensive research in the city of Nanjing. There, she interviewed the parents of 26 deaf children while also carefully analyzing a large collection of letters w...

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Deaf Identities in the Making Local Lives, Transnational Connections

Breivik Jan-Kare

ISBN: PB: 9781563685903, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In his revolutionary new book, Jan-Kare Breivik profiles ten Norwegian Deaf people and their life stories within a translocal/transnational framework. Breivik notes that, unlike hearing people, who form their identities from familial roots and local...

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Deaf Empowerment Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric

Jankowski Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781563685880, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Employing the methodology successfully used to explore other social movements in America, this meticulous study examines the rhetorical foundation that motivated Deaf people to work for social change during the past two centuries. In clear, concise p...

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Gender Studies

Documenting Intimate Matters Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America

Foster Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226257471, ISBN: HB: 9780226257464, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control; it has been a way to understand ourselves and others; and it has been at the...

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Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon

Lindemann Danielle J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.

Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...

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