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Paperback. Elisheva Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish daily practices in medieval Ashkenaz. The first study to address the practices of men and women together, Baumgarten explores how Jews who were not learned alongside those who were expressed their convictions and reinforced their identities as Jews within a Christian world. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223705
ISBN
9780812223705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.93

Paperback. Editor(s): Auther, Elissa; Lerner, Adam. Num Pages: 448 pages, 92 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; ACXJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1052.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816677269
ISBN
9780816677269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.43

Paperback. This richly illustrated catalogue, the fourth in a series sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, features essays on the subject of costume and a substantial bibliography on the topic of costumes in art and an exhibition checklist. Editor(s): Weaver, Elissa B.; Rodini, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 110 pages, 8 colour plates, 40 halftones, bibliography. BIC Classification: ACN; ACQ; ACV; AGC; AKTA; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 204 x 11. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780935573350
ISBN
9780935573350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.96

Paperback. A tale of survival and freedom, Stolen Innocence is the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 col plates (8pp). BIC Classification: 1KBBWU; BGA; HRCC99; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 332. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KTG0006225
ISBN
9780007307418
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This Side of Doctoring is a collection of over 100 personal essays and poems by female physicians over the last century and a half. Organized into categories such as 'Internship and Residency', 'Mothering and Doctoring', 'Making Choices' and 'Barriers', the anthology presents feminine and feminist perspectives on all aspects of a medical career. Num Pages: 432 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: DN; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195158472
ISBN
9780195158472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.57

hardcover. What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? This book focuses on these questions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
3rd Edition
SKU
V9780823231416
ISBN
9780823231416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.92

Num Pages: 340 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 953.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813542249
ISBN
9780813542249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. A collection of twelve articles that explore various events in the history of witch-hunting and its demonization of women in American and American women's own use of witchcraft as a source of identity and strength, as well as the complicated relationship between the two. Editor(s): Reis, Elizabeth. Series: The Worlds of Women Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HRQX9; JFSJ1; VXWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842025768
ISBN
9780842025768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.25

Paperback. Makes the point that the social domination of women and the ecological domination of the earth are inextricably fused in theory and practice. Series: Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; HRCM; HRLB; HRLK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 114 x 8. Weight in Grams: 80.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Paulist Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809134151
ISBN
9780809134151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.21

Paperback. Argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 b&w photos, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFSL1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822328681
ISBN
9780822328681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.26

Paperback. Reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulate in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. This book traces how liberal binary concepts of individual freedom and social constraint influence understandings of intimacy in these two worlds. Series: Public Planet S. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 204 x 21. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338895
ISBN
9780822338895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.32

Paperback. A study of the Belyuen community of northern Australia, showing how it draws identity from deep connections between labour, language and the landscape. Povinelli's findings challenge Western notions of "productive labour" and long-standing ideas about the role of culture in subsistence economies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JFC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226676746
ISBN
9780226676746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.72

Hardback. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 492 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; LAQG; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774826518
ISBN
9780774826518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.50

Paperback. Drawing on trial transcripts, this book tells the stories of ten battered women who killed their male partners and one who did not, revealing why women don't "just leave" and the serious barriers to achieving acquittal. Series: Law and Society Series. Num Pages: 492 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1; LNFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774826525
ISBN
9780774826525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.54

Paperback. Explores the ways in neuroscientific research bears on the relation between psyche and the body. Num Pages: 136 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333654
ISBN
9780822333654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. An original and sophisticated contribution to understanding the tangled issue of gender in Soviet Russia. Editor(s): Rabinowitch, Alexander; Rosenberg, William G. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780253214300
ISBN
9780253214300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.95

Paperback. A collaboration between African American and white feminists that deals with the problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. It questions such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. Editor(s): Abel, Elizabeth; Christian, Barbara; Moglen, Helene. Num Pages: 425 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
425
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206304
ISBN
9780520206304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.37

Hardback. This book presents new empirical research about in-home child care in Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, three countries where governments are pursuing new ways to support the recruitment of in-home childcare workers through funding, regulation and migration. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Policy Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447330141
ISBN
9781447330141
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691158112
ISBN
9780691158112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.39

Paperback. Explores the historical forces that have shaped women's lives in Mississippi. This book acknowledges the state's diverse cultural and physical landscapes as they discuss how issues of race, gender, and class affected women's lives in various private and public spheres. Editor(s): Payne, Elizabeth Anne (Professor of History, University of Mississippi, USA); Swain, Martha H. (Cornaro Professor of History Emerita, Texas Women's University, USA); Spruill, Marjorie Julian (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA). Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Volume 2
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820333946
ISBN
9780820333946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.13

Hardcover. Editor(s): Bellamy, Elizabeth J. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JNHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 264 x 16. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634633000
ISBN
9781634633000
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 239.90
€ 165.38

Paperback. Despite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. This work paints a picture of the state of global sexual commerce and its relationship to a burgeoning consumer culture. Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender & Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 halftones, 6 maps, 6 line drawings, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFMX; JHBL; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044583
ISBN
9780226044583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, charts and grafs. BIC Classification: JFFH; JKS; JPQB; KCP; KFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 33. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781610395489
ISBN
9781610395489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JNLB; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472534842
ISBN
9781472534842
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.61
€ 74.20

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