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The University of Chicago Press George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Getting Justice and Getting Even Legal
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£31.35
The University of Chicago Press On Social Structure and Science
Book SynopsisThis definitive compilation encompasses the breadth of Robert Merton's works, from the earliest to the most recent, including his foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Human Rights and Gender Violence
Book SynopsisA study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. The author offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. This book will interest students of gender studies and anthropology.Trade Review"A great contribution to our understanding of the interaction of international human rights norms and local culture. Sally Engle Merry succeeds in showing the complexity of this relationship through a solid grounding in a great deal of field research." - Cynthia Bowman, Northwestern University School of Law"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Sociology of Science Theoretical and
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£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Hawking Incorporated
Book SynopsisThese days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. The author focuses on a man who is permanently attached to assemblages of machines, devices, and collectivities of people: Stephen Hawking.Trade Review"First things first: Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject is a masterful, inspiring book. Rather than producing a biography of Hawking, which this is decidedly not, Helene Mialet's book encourages us to question the very possibility of knowing who Hawking is without taking away the agency of the man himself, ultimately helping readers reconsider how we think about individuality, embodiment, and personhood in extremely productive ways... Inspired by Actor-Network Theory but pushing it into new territory, Mialet's study uses a thick description of Hawking's 'extended body' to allow us a glimpse into the formation, movement, and circulation of identity in general, in the sciences and potentially well beyond. What does it mean to say 'he thinks'? What's the difference between dealing with texts and people? How do we define what is 'original' and how does that translate into the archive? Mialet's work explores these and other questions in a series of ethnographic accounts and stories that are both fascinating to read and extremely helpful to think with." (Carla Nappi New Books in Science, Technology, and Society) "For Helene Mialet, what we know is not Hawking but a construct she calls 'HAWKING,' which is sustained by an extended network of nurses, postgraduate assistants, students and other ancillaries, further institutional support, plus indispensable media assistance. In this rather thorough exploration, she gives us a thick description of how this all works, interwoven with much discussion of distributed identities and personhood in performance." (Jon Turney Times Higher Education Supplement) "Hawking Incorporated will draw readers because of the extraordinary fame of its subject. However, it is most valuable because its case study identifies exaggerated but important features of ordinary science in practice." (Jon Agar Science) "He is a household name, and not just in scientific circles. As the world's most famous living scientist, Stephen Hawking needs no introduction - whether appearing on late night chat shows or an episode of The Simpsons. But why? In Hawking Incorporated, historian and philosopher of science Helene Mialet sets out to answer this question, and in the process comes to some interesting conclusions about the way we perceive science and scientists." (New Scientist) "Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject by Helene Mialet is a book that deserves a spot on every Transhumanist's virtual bookshelf... [A] must read." (Peter Rothman h+) "This fascinating book takes a fresh approach to Stephen Hawking... Highly recommended." (V. V. Raman, Rochester Institute of Technology Choice) "From a disability studies perspective, Hawking Incorporated serves as a superb case study for examining the ordinary practices that maintain disability as an undertheorized phenomenon. Disability, depicted by Mialet as a forceful provocation, puts the reader on the path to witness how various competencies are enabled by an able-ist network of power and knowledge. Moreover, this book is an excellent addition to science and technology studies; anthropology of the knowing subject; sociology of work; and, of course, a must-read for those interested in thinking critically about Stephen Hawking." (Tanya Titchkosky, University of Toronto Disability & Society) "Hawking Incorporated, while very much a work of anthropology based in the present, sits at the intersection of some of the most pressing questions for historians of science. To pose just a few: what is the relationship between individual and collective scientific activity? How do materials and machines matter in theoretical sciences? How is a subject constituted in an archive? How do private and public images of science shape scientific knowledge and practice and vice versa? Each question turns on Mialet's presiding interest in just who and what make up the knowing subject, a figure she unpacks in ways that can challenge and enrich many historians' work." (Michael J. Barany, Princeton University British Journal for the History of Science) "The book is written engagingly and may perhaps attract readers to the remarkable literature on the social and cultural workings of science that anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers have produced over the past four decades or so." (American Ethnologist) "A unique story." (Ian Hacking Common Knowledge) "Hawking Incorporated offers a new analysis of the ways in which the scientist Stephen Hawking's persona is produced and used in an astonishingly wide range of spheres. Using materials from interviews, film and audio records, correspondence and informal documents, Helene Mialet offers nothing less than a new anthropology of the contemporary scientist. This is a story with a fascinating cast: assistants, students, secretaries, archivists, physicians, engineers, journalists, and filmmakers all figure as key participants in the enormous work of sustaining and distributing Hawking's projects. Mialet's tactful and astute inquiry addresses the intimate details of the modern scientific world: its artful use of ingenious software, computational diagrams, and calculating aids; its ceremonial system of lectures and conferences; its career structure of disciplinary training and public mastery. The book will be of inestimable value both as a highly original biography of a fascinating intellectual presence and a broad study of one of the most important themes in the culture of modern sciences." (Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge) "Helene Mialet has offered a brilliant and provocative book, taking the example of Stephen Hawking to probe the contemporary articulation of 'man.' What we discover is the anthropos radically rethought as an assemblage of body, machine, media event and image, object, and industrial effect. Indeed, the human body turns out to be a series of interrelated connections, and this book persuades us to rethink our most basic ideas of human form and the tasks of science itself." (Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley) "On a terribly risky topic, Helene Mialet manages with a delicate and caring touch to approach one of the most vexing questions of science studies: how to give a concrete description of the material network able to generate abstraction? By connecting disability studies, distributed cognition, and the ethnography of formalism, she also manages to write a moving portrait of an embodied mind at work." (Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris) "Hawking Incorporated provides a social anatomy of how Stephen Hawking - as a physicist, person, and cyborgian collective - lives and breathes in human space-time, even as his theories reach toward a cosmic elsewhere. Helene Mialet takes the reader on an anthropological odyssey through the worlds of those assistants, machines, students, and TV documentary teams that have helped to conjure Hawking as the singular figure he has become. When Mialet finally meets Hawking in person, the results are riveting and revelatory." (Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Mialet doesn't ask what the famous scientist has taught us about cosmology. She asks what his life and career can teach us about scientific thinking in general - and about ordinary thinking too, for that matter. There is no doubt that Hawking is doubly exceptional, both in his mind and his body. The brilliant gambit of Mialet's book is to explore this exceptionalism in order to reveal how scientific knowledge is made under far more ordinary circumstances." (Ken Alder LA Review of Books)
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Women Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts
Book SynopsisThis text explores the many contradictions faced by shoppers on a typical London street, and in the process offers a sophisticated examination of the way we shop, and what it reveals about our relationships to our families and communities, as well as to the environment and the economy as a whole.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press La Chicana The MexicanAmerican Woman
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The University of Chicago Press Against Marriage The Correspondence of La Grande
Book SynopsisIn 17th century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. The Duchesse de Montpensier was one of the few exceptions, as this collection of her letters demonstrates.
£24.00
University of Chicago Press The Moral Neoliberal Welfare and Citizenship in
Book SynopsisMorality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line. This title shows morality as the opposite: an indispensable tool for capitalist transformation.Trade Review"The Moral Neoliberal is an outstanding book addressing with great precision and authority a decisive series of transformations unfolding in Italy and, by extension, across Europe. The ethnographic narrative is vibrant, the argumentation is crisp, and the analysis is persuasive. Andrea Muehlebach provides an alternative architecture of a 'moral neoliberalism' populated by engaged, reflexive subjects who are experimenting with the imperatives of what she terms 'ethical citizenship.' The results are breathtaking." (Douglas Holmes, State University of New York)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Everyone Is NOT Doing It Abstinence and Personal
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with individuals who abstain from habits as diverse as sex, cigarettes, sugar, and technology, this book identifies four different types of abstainers: quitters; those who have never done something and never will; those who haven't done something yet, but might in the future; and those who are not doing something temporarily.Trade Review"Everyone is NOT Doing it offers an enjoyable meditation on the nature of abstinence - what it is, what it means, and what it signifies. Here, Jamie Mullaney gets a variety of people to talk candidly about all types of abstinence, how and why they do it, and its placement in their lives. As a result, she makes us aware of commonalities we all share with a wide and diverse set of abstainers." - Daniel F. Chambliss, Hamilton College"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Homosexualities
Book SynopsisThis work provides an examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities. Although the variety of behaviours, subcategories, and meanings of same-sex sex is considerable, Murray argues that there are a few recurring types. He relates the patterns to other sociological institutions.Trade Review"[An] indispensable resource on same-sex sexual relationships and their social contexts.... Essential reading." - Choice; "[P]romises to deliver a lot, and even more extraordinarily succeeds in its lofty aims.... [O]riginal and refreshing.... [A] sensational book, part of what I see emerging as a new commonsense revolution within academe." - Kevin White, International Gay and Lesbian Review
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Invisible Lives
Book SynopsisThrough combined theoretical and empirical study, this work argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the
Book SynopsisAnton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer - but he wrote more than just plays and stories. This title introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: his pithy, witty observations on the writing process; and, his life as a writer through accounts by his friends, family, and lovers.Trade Review"Balm for the loneliness and torment of the ethnographic writer, this manual by one of the most distinguished offers the user a personal writer's workshop, at once charming, therapeutic, and practical. The author's mother, her most astute reader, asks: 'A lot of people have no problem writing. The bigger thing I'd like to know is, do you have any thoughts on how to put all the different little bits together?' With the help of Anton Chekhov, her muse and obsession, Narayan does." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Gay Mens Friendships Invincible Communities
Book SynopsisThis study presents an examination of contemporary urban gay men's lives. The author explores the meaning of friends to gay men, how friends become a surrogate family, how sexual behaviour and attraction affect these friendships, and how, for many friends mean more than romantic relationships.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Making an Issue of Child Abuse
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Middle Age and Aging
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£40.00
The University of Chicago Press The Modernity Bluff Crime Consumption and
Book SynopsisIn Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth. The author argues that they engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity - highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.Trade Review"The Modernity Bluff takes its place comfortably with the best writing on African youth, cities, and popular culture - Cole, De Boeck, Mbembe, Nyamanjoh, Simone, Weiss, White - and gives an utterly original angle for understanding the cultural underpinnings of the current conflict in Cote d'Ivoire. Sasha Newell knows both the contemporary and classic Africanist literatures. He also brings to bear a considerable amount of specialist theory to explain the ways the performance of 'bluff,' seemingly a king of consumerist simulacrum, can actually create something out of nothing." (Mike McGovern, Yale University)"
£90.00
The University of Chicago Press The Modernity Bluff Crime Consumption and
Book SynopsisIn Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth. The author argues that they engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity - highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.Trade Review"The Modernity Bluff takes its place comfortably with the best writing on African youth, cities, and popular culture - Cole, De Boeck, Mbembe, Nyamanjoh, Simone, Weiss, White - and gives an utterly original angle for understanding the cultural underpinnings of the current conflict in Cote d'Ivoire. Sasha Newell knows both the contemporary and classic Africanist literatures. He also brings to bear a considerable amount of specialist theory to explain the ways the performance of 'bluff,' seemingly a kind of consumerist simulacrum, can actually create something out of nothing." (Mike McGovern, Yale University)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Mother Camp Female Impersonators in America
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£24.00
The University of Chicago Press On Your Own without a Net
Book SynopsisDocuments the challenges facing seven vulnerable populations during the transition to adulthood - former foster-care youth, youth formerly involved in juvenile justice system, youth in criminal justice system, runaway and homeless youth, former special-education students, young people in mental health system, and youth with physical disabilities.Trade Review"A fruitful, well-defended study of how lifelong disadvantage becomes solidified in the transition from childhood to adulthood.... For researchers and practitioners who are concerned with young peoples' development, especially young people who live on the margins of the society, this book is a valuable reference." - Bernard Schissel, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Mobilizing Mutations
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£33.25
The University of Chicago Press Composing Capital Classical Music in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An extraordinarily important book. The time is ripe for this kind of statement about the relationships between neoliberalism and contemporary classical music practice, discourse, and economic circulation; and, moreover, for such a book to be penned by the hand of a musicologist. Indeed, it is pressing. There is simply no denying the political relevance of musicology's thinking-through of its imbrications with neoliberal logistics; the drive toward conceptual ossification of its fundamentals must, at all costs, be stalled. Composing Capital will be a significant means by which this might be done."--James R. CurrieJames R. Currie, State University of New York at Buffalo, author of "Music and the Politics of Negation" "There is something not only despicable and insidious but also tragic and misguided about the ways in which composers, compositional scenes and collectives, performing companies, and advertising/production composers/arrangers and sound designers have actively reproduced ideologies of competition, entrepreneurship, individualism, and marketization. A bracing tonic to read, and filled with energetic prose and critical enthusiasm, as well as remarkably clear expositions of ideas that elsewhere have been made unnecessarily complicated and unclear, Composing Capital is both a polemic and a pensive meditation on the present state of things. This is an inspiring and powerful book."--Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota, author of "The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form" "Composing Capital opens our eyes and ears to the unholy dance between classical music and the neoliberal economic values that underpin American political culture. In a theoretically sophisticated and hard-hitting critique, Ritchey shows how new music has unwittingly adopted capitalism's 'rhetorical benevolence, ' embracing flexibility, entrepreneurship, and disruption as positive values rather than recognizing them as destabilizing and exploitative forces. Meanwhile, giant tech conglomerates enlist Beethoven to lend their products positive associations like freedom and individuality and to provide a simulacrum of historical depth in a radically anti-historical business culture. This is an important book, and it comes at just the right time."--Anne C. Shreffler, Harvard University
£74.10
The University of Chicago Press Composing Capital Classical Music in the
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£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Book SynopsisAnalyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as "normal" hetero-sexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. This book is suitable for those concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.Trade Review"A first-rate analysis.... This wonderfully nuanced study challenges readers to think simultaneously about the cultural and structural aspects of cross-cultural sexual interactions across international borders, and how those interactions impact local and global constructions of sexuality." - Hector Carrillo, San Francisco State University"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Marked
Book SynopsisNearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work. This book offers a glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market.Trade Review"Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job.... Both informative and convincing." - Library Journal "Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose - and one of the most useful sociological studies in years." - Michael Eric Dyson "How do you tell when a democracy is dead? When concentration camps spring up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it when concentration camps spring up and no one shivers in fear because everyone knows they're not for 'people like us.'... Devah Pager uses a simple technique to show how mass incarceration has undone the small amount of racial progress achieved in the 1960s and '70s." - Nation"
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Nostalgia for the Future
Book SynopsisSince the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a rise in political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, and a culture of scamming and fraud. This title argues that a novel cultural politics is remaking one of the world's poorest regions.Trade Review"Nostalgia for the Future is an evocative and topical study that is clearly the product of a mature, long-term engagement with contemporary Togo, the anthropological and historical literature on the country, and the theoretical debates that have been central to anthropology over the past fifteen years." - Mariane C. Ferme, University of California, Berkeley"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Remotely Global Village Modernity in West Africa
Book SynopsisArguing that village life is an effect of the modern and the global, this text analyzes everyday and social practices, and suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The People of the Sierra Phoenix Books
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£27.00
The University of Chicago Press A Guide to Americas Sex Laws
Book SynopsisThis text presents a concise compendium of America's sex laws and brings together in one place, and summarizes, the laws regulating personal sexual activity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Rape and Sexual Assault 2: Marital Exemptions from Rape and Sexual Assault 3: Age of Consent 4: Sodomy 5: Transmission of Disease 6: Public Nudity and Indecency 7: Fornication 8: Adultery 9: Abuse of Position of Trust or Authority 10: Incest 11: Bigamy 12: Prostitution 13: Possession of Obscene Materials 14: Bestiality 15: Necrophilia 16: Obscene Communications 17: Voyeurism Glossary
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
Book SynopsisApplying Cartesian principles to "The Woman Question" Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the inequality of the sexes was merely prejudice. Poullain advocated an enlightened feminine education, laying the groundwork for the future liberation movement.
£30.40
University of Chicago Press Sodomy in Reformation Germany Switzerland 1400
Book SynopsisDrawing on both literary and historical evidence, Puff shows that speakers of German associated sodomy with Italy, and increasingly, the Catholic Church. This study will interest historians of gender, sexuality and religion, as well as scholars of medieval history and culture.
£66.50
The University of Chicago Press Making Social Welfare Policy in America Three
Book SynopsisAmerican social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. Making Social Welfare Policy in America explains how this happened by examining the historical development of three key programsSocial Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families. Edward D. Berkowitz traces the developments that led to each program's creation. Policy makers often find it difficult to dislodge a program's administrative structure, even as political, economic, and cultural circumstances change. Faced with this situation, they therefore solve contemporary problems with outdated programs and must improvise politically acceptable solutions. The results vary according to the political popularity of the program and the changes in the conventional wisdom. Some programs, such as Social Security Disability Insurance, remain in place over time. Policy makers have added new parts to Medicare to reflect modern developments. Congress has abolished Aid to Families of Dependent Children and replaced with a new program intended to encourage work among adult welfare recipients raising young children. Written in an accessible style and using a minimum of academic jargon, this book illuminates how three of our most important social welfare programs have come into existence and how they have fared over time.
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press FuzzySet Social Science
Book SynopsisIn this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitive and qualitative methods. He argues that fuzzy sets allow a far richer dialogue between ideas and evidence in social research than previously possible.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Interpretation and Social Knowledge On the Use
Book SynopsisOver the years anxiety over the problem of naturalism has driven debates in social theory. Analyzing the work of writers such as Theda Skocpol, Clifford Geertz, Leela Gandhi, Roy Bhaskar, Foucault, and Habermas, the author delineates three epistemic modes of social research: realism, normativism, and interpretivism.Trade Review"Interpretation and Social Knowledge offers an accessible mapping of the epistemological debates that have seized the attention of our most formidable scholars over the past fifty years, and more importantly, it provides a nuanced understanding of how social inquiry can and should proceed." (John R. Hall, University of California, Davis)"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Logic of the Lure
Book SynopsisThe attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial. Jean Paul Ricco argues through the medium of modern art that it is precisely such fleeting experiences that will create a queer aesthetic, and notion of ethics.Trade Review"This original and frequently dazzling work explores sites that might be defined as queer spaces, and in which we might think of a queer architecture being located. What results is an extremely fascinating effort to redefine notions of architectural space and identity, and to reimagine the spatial dimensions of subjectivity itself." - Leo Bersani, author of Homos
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Disruptive Acts The New Women in FindeSiecle
Book SynopsisIn fin-de-siecle France, politics were in uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the 'new woman', a group of primarily urban, middle class French women. This work studies these women who challenged traditional notions of womanhood and conventionality.Trade Review"Disruptive Acts is a beautifully written and fascinating study of the emergence of the 'new woman' in fin-de-siecle France in context of the period's mass print culture, its preoccupation with the theater, its increasing commodification of culture, and the rise of the Third Republic. The book very importantly expands the history of how women resisted liberal domesticity in fin-de-siecle France and will be indispensable reading for a wide range of scholars." - Susan Lurie, author of Unsettled Subjects: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Bargaining for Reality The Construction of
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Varieties of Muslim Experience Encounters with
Book SynopsisExplores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. This title argues that the common thread is the importance Arabs place on the negotiation of interpersonal relationships - a link that helps to explain actions as seemingly unfathomable as suicide bombing and as elusive as Quranic interpretation.Trade Review"Rosen tackles such issues as Arab ideas of justice, human rights, reading the Koran in the West, representations of the Prophet.... A provocative, elegantly written book on which to ponder." (Choice)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Bengali Women
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Sinners and Citizens Bestiality and Homosexuality
Book SynopsisJens Rydstrom explores the history of homosexuality and bestiality in Sweden to consider why these sexual practices have been so closely linked in virtually all Western Societies. Based on diaries, medical records and court reports, this work reveals the changing notion of deviant behaviour.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Culture and Practical Reason
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£27.00
University of Chicago Press The Emerging Lesbian Female SameSex Desire in
Book SynopsisFocusing especially on literature by or about women-preferring women, Sang traces the history of female same-sex relations in China from the late Imperial period (1600-1911) through the republican era (1912-1949). She ends by examining the re-emergence of public debate on lesbians in modern China.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Institutional Change and Healthcare Organization
Book SynopsisThe changes in the US healthcare system since World War II are documented here, from new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, to financing mechanisms and underlying sets of organizing principles. The authors illustrate the work with five types of healthcare organizations.
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press Memories of the Slave Trade Ritual and the
Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped (and been reshaped by) experiences of colonialism, postcolonialsm, and the country's ten-year rebel war.Trade Review"[This] is an extraordinary combination of ethnography and history that promises to reshape our understanding of West African cultures and the ways in which their insertion into history has affected such quotidian matters as gender and ideas about the person. Shaw provides an elegant analysis that shows how aspects of culture, such as ideas about secrecy and local concepts of agency, were fashioned under historical circumstances that are both transmitted and rethought in the present." - Ivan Karp, Emory University
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The University of Chicago Press Tradition
Book SynopsisExplores the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. This book reveals the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship.Trade Review"Shils is a man of fabled learning, whose mind purrs powerfully like the moth at dusk. I hesitate to use the word conservative of him because it misses the central concern of his work, which is not conservatism, but the conservation of those human resources and achievements which are richest, and matter most." - David A. Martin, Times Literary Supplement "Tradition is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject that encompasses the totality of tradition in all its multifaceted variables and functions....It is a landmark analytical and theoretical sociological study that not only fills a need but also provides a basic model and impetus for further research." - H. Leon Abrams Jr., Sociology "Shils tries to explore not this or that tradition, but the role in human societies of tradition as such - in the very wide sense of everything that is traditum, handed down, from one generation to another....Shils merits appreciation for having restated, with much learning and considerable eloquence, the sheer indispensability of tradition to human society." - Peter L. Berger, New York Times Book Review"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Cages of Reason The Rise of the Rational State in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Pt. 1: Bureaucratic Structure as a Contingent Problem 1: Organization Theory and Bureaucratic Structure 2: Political Uncertainty, Leadership Succession, and the Modes of Administration 3: The Strategies of Uncertainty Pt. 2: Strategies of High Uncertainty France 4: Revolutionary Change and Structural Ambiguity: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Transformations 5: The Post-Napoleonic Period Japan 6: The Meiji Restoration as the Revolutionary Moment 7: The Resolution of Revolutionary Uncertainty and the Imperial State Pt. 3: Strategies of Low Uncertainty The United States 8: Political Parties, Patronage, and Administration 9: Political Leadership, Party Contestation, and Reform: 1865-1925 Great Britain 10: Parliament, the Crown, and the Problem of Patronage 11: Patronage, Representation, and Administrative Reform 12: "The Efficient Secret": Administrative Rationalization and the Executive Conclusion Bibliography Index
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms
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£26.00
