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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Girls of Liberty The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine

Shilo Margalit

ISBN: PB: 9781611688863, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women wo...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Coolie Woman The Odyssey of Indenture

Bahadur Gaiutra

ISBN: PB: 9781849046602, ISBN: HB: 9781849042772, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husb...

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Survival & Combat Guide

Women Studies

Woman's Guide to the Wild Your Complete Outdoor Handbook

McConnell Ruby

ISBN: PB: 9781632170057, GMC Group, Sasquatch Books, April 2016
256 pp., 19x14 cm, illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! For women who enjoy hiking, camping, backpacking and other outdoor recreation -or those inspired by Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild' – this is the definitive guide to being a woman in the great outdoors. This friendly han...

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Photography

Women Studies

Through Women's Eyes From Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia. Passion and Courage

Miglietti Francesca Alfano

ISBN: HB: 9788831722810, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2016
288 pp., 25.7x20.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 151 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 20th century to today features the most important works of 25 artists. Women have played an important role in the development of photogr...

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Women Studies

Sport

Body Toning for Women Bodyweight Training / Nutrition / Motivation: 21 Days is All it Takes

Wyndham-Read Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9781782550716, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2016
208 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 3 colour illus., 246 black&white illus., 3 tables

Every woman wants to work on some part of her body. Whether you are looking to shape your arms, bust, back, abs, bottom, or legs, Lucy Wyndham-Read's book on body toning will help you get the perfect gym body. Within just 21 days, you will see notice...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families Paradoxes of a Social Revolution

Barack Fishman Sylvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611688603, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The concepts of gender, love, and family – as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation – have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy

Shah Chaynika, Merchant Raj, Mahajan Shalini, Nevatia Smriti

ISBN: PB: 9789384757687, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2015
287 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? "No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy" answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the fe...

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Europe

Women Studies

Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance

Hurlburt Holly S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...

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Christianity

Women Studies

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Hamori Esther J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...

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Gender Studies

Women Studies

Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sarojini N., Marwah Vrinda

ISBN: HB: 9789383074525, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of pregnancy, birth, infertility, and women's bodies. Viewed...

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