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Failed Individual Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity

Motyl Katharina, Schober Regina

ISBN: PB: 9783593507828, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
399 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones

The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? "The Failed Indivi...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Filled with the Spirit Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition

Lewin Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226537207, ISBN: HB: 9780226537177, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at it...

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Gender Studies

Friendship as Social Justice Activism Critical Solidarities in a Global Perspective

Banerjea Niharika, Dasgupta Debanuj, Dasgupta Rohit K., Grant Jaime M.

ISBN: PB: 9780857424433, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"Friendship as Social Justice Activism" brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the globe and...

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History of Art

Women Studies

Fray Art and Textile Politics

Bryan-Wilson Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226077819, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour plates, 62 halftones

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile mak...

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Feminist Subversion and Complicity Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

Mukhopadhyay Maitrayee

ISBN: HB: 9789385932168, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Feminist Subversion and Complicity" brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who, while working at diverse kinds of institutions, are all closely involved in the intersection of development policy...

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Fault Lines of History The India Papers II

Chakravarti Uma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932083, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
326 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Fault Lines of History" is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when it comes to the violation of human and civil right...

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Women Studies

Film Studies

From Reverence to Rape The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Third Edition)

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780226412894, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 57 halftones

A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's "From Reverence to Rape" remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to f...

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America

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Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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Gender Studies

Literary Criticism

Foucault and the "Kamasutra" The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India

Gautam Sanjay K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226348445, ISBN: HB: 9780226348308, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The "Kamasutra" is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In "Foucault and the Kamasutra"...

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Europe

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Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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