The Oxford Companion to Italian Food
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The popularity of Italian food all over the world is ever increasing. Unhampered by any sense of...
The Pharaoh's Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Egypt's Enduring Food Traditions
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Judging from the evidence available from depictions of daily life on tombs and in historical texts,...
A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present
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Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements...
Bachelors of a Different Sort: Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain
Christopher Breward, John Potvin and Bill Sherman
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The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in...
Becoming Women: The Embodied Self in Image Culture
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In a culture where beauty is currency, women's bodies are often perceived as measures of value and...
Contours of the Nation: Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970
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The obesity epidemic that is said to plague nations around the world, including Canada, is not...
Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity
Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose
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Often perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national,...
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
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Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In...
Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic facts that...
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture: From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania
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When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why...