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Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France / by Horowitz, Sarah, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : friendship in post-revolutionary France -- The sentimental education of the political -- The politics of anomie -- Friends with benefits -- Post-revolutionary social networks -- The politics of male friendship -- The bonds of concord : women and politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Beranger, Chateaubriand, Guizot, and their friends -- Appendix B : detailed social networks in the 1820s and 1840s.…”
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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

Table of Contents: “…Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

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