The Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China
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The ugly wife is a treasure at home" is not just an idle expression in China. For centuries, Chinese...
There are Two Sexes: Essays in Feminology
Catherine Porter, Antoinette Fouque and Sylvina Boissonnas
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Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and...
Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music
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Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional...
Women and Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Communities
Seema Shekhawat and Debidatta Aurobinda
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Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and...
Why the Pain, What's the Gain?: The Quest for Extreme Fitness
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Running, jumping, lifting, pushing, stretching - our bodies are naturally built to move and work,...
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
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A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies...
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
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In Elf Queens and Holy Friars Richard Firth Green investigates an important aspect of medieval...
Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China
Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang
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This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary,...
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
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In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the...
