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Critical tax theory an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Sexism in the code : a comparative study of income taxation of working wives and mothers / Grace Blumberg -- Dollars and selves : women's tax criticism and resistance in the 1870s / Carolyn C. …”
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The limits of ethics in international relations natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition / by Boucher, David, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Tocqueville, idealism, and the expansion of the moral community -- The human rights culture and its discontents -- Modern constitutive theories of human rights -- Human rights and the judicial revolution -- Women and human rights.…”
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Migration and Christian identity in Congo (DRC) by Wild-Wood, Emma

Table of Contents: “…Of roots and routes : an introduction -- "Their own church" : l'Eglise Anglicane du Congo, 1896-1960 -- Being at home in a new place : EAC growth through rural-urban migration -- Returning home to a strange land : EAC growth through trans-border migration -- Contesting unity and order : inter-church conflict -- Homeless and free for the gospel : revivalists in the EAC -- Weak vessels or church foundations? : women in the EAC -- "Young people, keep your faith" : youth, spirit, and contemporary Christian expression -- Migrant Anglican identity in Congo.…”
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The autobiographical documentary in America by Lane, Jim, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction 3 -- I The Convergence of Autobiography and Documentary: -- Historical Connections I I -- 2 David Holzman's Diary: An Unlikely Beginning 33 -- 3 The Journal Entry Approach: Narrative, Chronology, and -- Autobiographical Claims 48 -- 4 Autobiographical Portraiture: Family and Self 94 -- 5 Women and the Autobiographical Documentary: Historical -- Intervention, Writing, Alterity, and the Dialogic Engagement 145 -- Afterword I9I -- Notes 197 -- Filmography 222 -- Works Cited 224 -- Index 233.…”
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Witches, whores, and sorcerers the concept of evil in early Iran / by Forrest, Satnam Mendoza

Table of Contents: “…Sorcerers, witches, whores, and menstruating women -- 7. The evil eye, corpse-abusing criminals, demon worshippers, and friends -- 8. …”
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Slavery by any other name African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique / by Allina, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization" -- From law to practice: "certain excesses of severity" -- The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below -- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages -- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder" -- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor -- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will" -- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition" -- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.…”
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Afro-Cuban costumbrismo from plantations to the slums / by Ocasio, Rafael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: nineteenth-century costumbrista writers on the slave trade and on black traditions in Cuba -- Cuban costumbrista portraits of slaves in sugarmills: essays by Anselmo Suárez y Romero -- Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiografía de un esclavo: self-characterization of an urban mulato -- Fino slave -- Urban slaves and freed blacks: black women's objectification and erotic taboos -- The costumbristas' views of manly black males: uppity blacks and thugs -- Depictions of the horrific "unseen": Cuban Creole religious practices -- Conclusion. …”
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Supporting a physiologic approach to pregnancy and birth a practical guide /

Table of Contents: “…The case for a physiologic approach to birth : an overview -- The physiology of pregnancy, labor, and birth -- A supportive approach to prenatal care -- Physiologic support of labor and birth -- Promoting comfort a conceptual approach -- Continuous labor support -- Techniques to promote relaxation in labor -- Touch therapies -- Water immersion for labor and birth -- Aromatherapy in pregnancy and childbirth -- Acupressure and acupuncture -- Rethinking care on the hospital unit -- Out of hospital birth -- Educating health professionals for collaborative practice in support of normal birth -- Women's health and maternity care policies : currenta status and recommendations for change.…”
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Periods in pop culture menstruation in film and television / by Rosewarne, Lauren

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: blood hunting -- Women bleeding secretly : the gender, place and segregation of menstruation -- Red tents and moon lodges : menstruation and the rites of passage -- The curse of eve : cramped stomachs and cramped lifestyles -- The menstrual mess : the disgust, horror and fear of menstruation -- I want to suck your blood : sex, sexiness and menstruation -- Bleeding out proud : menstruation and empowerment -- You don't know what you've got til it's gone : absent menstruation -- Where have all the menstruators gone? …”
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Taking on the big boys, or, Why feminism is good for families, business, and the nation by Bravo, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…: sexual harassment -- Nine to five : not just a movie--the right to organize -- Working other than nine to five : part-time and temporary jobs -- What this nation really thinks of motherhood : welfare reform -- Revaluing women's work outside of work -- How you can help get there.…”
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Invisible earthquake a woman's journey through stillbirth / by Ndlovu, Malika

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All-out for victory! magazine advertising and the World War II home front / by Jones, John Bush

Table of Contents: “…-- Conservation, scrap drives, and home front efficiency -- Soda pop, letters, and cigarettes -- Morale overseas and at home -- "Produce, conserve, share, and play square" -- Coping with shortages and rationing -- "The hand that rocked the cradle rules the world" -- Women in war work -- "Dig down deep" -- Giving blood and buying bonds -- Epilogue : the world of tomorrow.…”
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The novel and the American left critical essays on Depression-era fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- My little illegality / Joy Castro -- Shriveled breasts and dollar signs / Angela Marie Smith -- Monstrous modernism / Joseph Entin -- The objectivity of nature in Josephine Herbst's Rope of gold / Caren Irr -- Agrarian landscapes, the Depression, and women's progressive fiction / Janet Galligani Casey -- The avengers of Christie Street / Lee Bernstein -- "Smashing cantatas" and "Looking glass pitchers" / Lawrence Hanley -- Marching! …”
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Right to ride streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…: Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate -- Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott -- Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott -- Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Reluctant rebels the Confederates who joined the Army after 1861 / by Noe, Kenneth W., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…"Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil" -- Women : "Do the best you can" -- Hatred : "Vandal hordes" -- Pay : "Fighting for money instead of their country" -- pt. 3. …”
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Freedom is an endless meeting democracy in American social movements / by Polletta, Francesca

Table of Contents: “…SNCC'S CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, 1964-65 -- 5 PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW LEFT, 1960-67 -- 6 FRIENDSHIP AND EQUALITY IN THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT, 1967-77 -- 7 DEMOCRACY IN RELATIONSHIP: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND DIRECT ACTION TODAY -- 8 CONCLUSION: RULES, RITUALS, AND RELATIONSHIPS.…”
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The Chouteaus first family of the fur trade / by Hoig, Stan

Table of Contents: “…Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties.…”
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NGOs, civil society, and the public sphere by Lang, Sabine, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Urban development advocacy in the United States and Germany; 6. Transnational women's NGO networks in the European Union; 7. NGOs navigating inclusion in governance and public accountabilities; Appendix A. …”
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Making an impact children and domestic violence : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…-- Domestic violence and the abuse of children -- The impact of domestic violence on children -- Making safe arrangements for children affected by domestic violence : public and private law -- Protection under criminal law -- Protection from violence under civil law -- Protection against domestic violence under housing law -- Social care responses to domestic violence and abuse of children -- Practice and intervention with children in circumstances of domestic violence -- Intervention with male perpetrators of domestic violence -- Multi-agency involvement and cooperation in relation to domestic violence -- Working with and supporting women experiencing domestic violence.…”
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Missions and empire

Table of Contents: “…Gould -- An overview, 1700-1914 / Andrew Porter -- Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century / Alan Lester -- Where the missionary frontier ran ahead of empire / John Barker -- Christian missions and the Raj / Robert Eric Frykenberg -- New Christians as evangelists / Peggy Brock -- 'Trained to tell the truth': missionaries, converts, and narration / Gareth Griffiths -- Women and cultural exchanges / Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock -- Language / Paul Landau -- New religious movements / Rober Edgar -- Anthropology / Patrick Harries -- Education and medicine / Norman Etherington -- Decolonization / David Maxwell.…”
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