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Paperback. Tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. This title provides graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country's child wives. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822337959
- ISBN
- 9780822337959
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Paperback. Offers an analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822337997
- ISBN
- 9780822337997
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Paperback. An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India. Num Pages: 288 pages, 46 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338420
- ISBN
- 9780822338420
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Paperback. Rereads the works of Colette, Gide, and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338970
- ISBN
- 9780822338970
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Paperback. A collection of histories showing how women participated in Mexican revolutionary and postrevolutionary state formation by challenging conventions of sexuality, work, family life, and religious practice. Editor(s): Olcott, Jocelyn H.; Vaughan, Mary Kay; Cano, Gabriela. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338994
- ISBN
- 9780822338994
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paperback. First systematic medical history of Bolivia for the 20th century, viewing political change from the perspective of public health. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; JFSJ; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822339168
- ISBN
- 9780822339168
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Paperback. Tells the history of US flight attendants, tracing the evolution of their glamorized image as ideal women and their activism as trade unionists and feminists. This book combines attention to political economy and technology of the airline industry with perceptive readings of popular culture, newspapers, industry publications, and worker accounts. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; KNGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339465
- ISBN
- 9780822339465
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Paperback. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing to a relational ethic of strict self-discipline for the common good. This title demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the 'normal' American. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 photo, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFSK; JHMP; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339489
- ISBN
- 9780822339489
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Paperback. Compares women's organizing efforts in Mexico and in the borderlands to assess the way Latina mobilization and activism is influenced by the socio-political context in which the groups of women find themselves. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339519
- ISBN
- 9780822339519
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Paperback. While Americans prize the ability to get behind the wheel and hit the open road, they have not always agreed about what constitutes safe, decorous driving and who is capable of it. This title presents a cultural history of America's fear of and fascination with driving, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Num Pages: 360 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339632
- ISBN
- 9780822339632
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Paperback. First full-length history of the Colca Valley in southern Peru from pre-Hispanic times to the present. Num Pages: 336 pages, 41 b&w photos, 12 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339717
- ISBN
- 9780822339717
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paperback. Considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. This book provides several in-depth case studies, primarily concerning the lives of Indonesian men who term themselves gay (an Indonesian-language word that overlaps with, but does not correspond exactly to, English "gay"). Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFSK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339915
- ISBN
- 9780822339915
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Paperback. The trauma of the Jewish Holocaust has had the effect in scholarship of marginalizing it as a special case within the study of diaspora, ethnicity, and collection memory, yet as the contributors to this collection argue, the Holocaust and its aftermath ha Editor(s): Gerson, Judith Madeleine; Wolf, Diane L. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822339991
- ISBN
- 9780822339991
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Paperback. Explores conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, a crucial unexamined actor in the state's violent history. This title provides insights into policy debates surrounding the recent global resurgence of peasant land reform movements as well as theoretical frameworks that have long guided the study of agrarian politics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 illustrations, 6 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHMP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 4039 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340041
- ISBN
- 9780822340041
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Paperback. Traces Brazil's complex environmental politics as they have unfolded over time, from their mid-twentieth-century conservationist beginnings to the contemporary development of a distinctive 'socio-environmentalism' which seeks to address ecological destruction and social injustice simultaneously. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JFC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340317
- ISBN
- 9780822340317
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Paperback. An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340355
- ISBN
- 9780822340355
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Paperback. Includes sixteen colour photographs; images from Joanna in the Desert, a 2006 collaboration between Frueh and the photographer Jill O'Bryan; and several photographs of Frueh performing. Num Pages: 408 pages, 32 b&w photos, 16 color photos. BIC Classification: AFKP; AGB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 885.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822340409
- ISBN
- 9780822340409
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Paperback. Investigates how "W" stands for women. This book contains ten feminist scholars who analyze various aspects of Bush' persona, language, and policy to show how his administration has shaped a new politics of gender. Editor(s): Ferguson, Michaele L.; Marso, Lori Jo. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340423
- ISBN
- 9780822340423
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Paperback. The story of how the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves has been adapted and reworked by women of different cultures around the world. Editor(s): Davis, Kathy. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 38 illustrations, 3 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340669
- ISBN
- 9780822340669
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Paperback. Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. This book tells the story of Tubman's life as an American icon. Num Pages: 424 pages, 88 illustrations ( incl. 9 in color). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340737
- ISBN
- 9780822340737
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Paperback. An assessment of the legal and cultural effects of the arbitrary correlation of blood and race imposed by the US government on the indigenous peoples of Hawai'i. It demonstrates how blood quantum, a system originally intended to restore land to Native Hawaiians, has in fact become an extension of US imperial power in Hawai'i. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; HBTQ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340799
- ISBN
- 9780822340799
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Paperback. Suitable for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, this title argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and racialized subjects have been conceptualized in North America since the mid-twentieth century. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JMAF; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341208
- ISBN
- 9780822341208
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Paperback. A collection that challenges the binary conception of conservative religion versus progressive secularism by highlighting the existence of multiple secularisms. Editor(s): Jakobsen, Janet R.; Pellegrini, Ann. Series: A Social Text Book. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HRLP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341499
- ISBN
- 9780822341499
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Paperback. Moves social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing, and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. This title examines the interplay of Biblical scripture, gender, and nationalism in Christian Right and Native American activism. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HR; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 554.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822341635
- ISBN
- 9780822341635
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