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Women Studies

Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India

Datta Bishakha

ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm

From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Woman Reader

Jack Belinda Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300197204, ISBN: HB: 9780300120455, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to...

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Women Studies

Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War

Milanetti Gian Piero

ISBN: PB: 9788875651466, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2013
280 pp., 24x17 cm, 505 black&white illus.

A pictorial history on the contribution that Soviet airwomen brought to the II World War. The Author retraces meticulously the role that these young women played during what they called themselves the "Great patriotic War". He went several times to R...

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Women Studies

Media Studies

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917

Soderlund Gretchen

ISBN: PB: 9780226021539, ISBN: HB: 9780226021362, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 line illus.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this repre...

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Women Studies

Political Science

Women in the Club Gender and Policy Making in the Senate

Swers Michele L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226022826, ISBN: HB: 9780226022796, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 tables, 10 line illus.

In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a "war on women",‌ while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually...

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Women Studies

Our Pictures, Our Words A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement

Murthy Laxmi, Dasgupta Rajashri

ISBN: PB: 9789381017258, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 300 colour illus.

Vibrant, dynamic, spirited, and forceful. The contemporary women's movement in India, which began in the late 1970s, fought valiantly against dark times marked by violence and misogyny. But it also celebrated – liberation, solidarity among women, and...

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Women Studies

Women Changing India

Butalia Urvashi, Roy Anita

ISBN: HB: 9788189884970, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

India is changing. And at the heart of this change are its women. The change is widespread and varied, individual and collective, reflecting the full spectrum of women's lives, whether in politics or in economics, in business, or within their daily d...

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Women Studies

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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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Fabulous Feminist A Suniti Namjoshi Reader

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789381017333, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2013
252 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"The Fabulous Feminist" brings together for the first time in one volume a vast range of renowned feminist thinker Suniti Namjoshi's writings, starting with her most famous collection, "Feminist Fables", and including excerpts from "Saint Suniti and...

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Women Studies

Europe

Panaceia's Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: HB: 9780226925387, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 15 halftones

"Panaceia's Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicin...

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