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Dalit Women Speak Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
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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£28,00
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We Also Made History Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
ISBN: PB: 9789383074747, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
372 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 8 halftones
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of women's participation in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Dalit movement for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early...
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£24,00
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Genderscapes Revisioning Natural Resource Management
ISBN: PB: 9789383074754, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
476 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
Even in a realm that would seem to be as far removed from issues of gender as natural resource management, gender bias is pernicious and persistent, especially in India. Genderscapes looks at the reasons for this bias from a number of angles, includi...
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£26,50
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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£30,00
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Fear That Stalks Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces
ISBN: PB: 9789383074723, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
338 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
What are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space"‌ – and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women, but also the poor, transgender people, and others...
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£20,50
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Indian Women in the House of Fiction
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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£20,50
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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
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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£50,00
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Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
ISBN: PB: 9780226774817, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
536 pp., 23x15 cm
"Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives – in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups... Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from histori...
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£26,00
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Only Woman in the Room A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226132518, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution".The Only Woman in the Room" chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitu...
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£13,00
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Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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