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At War with Women : Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War / by Greenburg, Jennifer, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Doctrinal Turning Points in the New Imperial Wars -- The "Social Work" of War : Techniques and Struggles to Remake Military Labor -- Colonial "Lessons Learned" : The Contemporary Soldier Becomes the Historical Colonizer -- Soothing Occupation : Gender and the Strategic Deployment of Emotional Labor -- A New Imperial Feminism : Color-Blind Racism and the Special Operation of Women's Rights.…”
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History / by Morton, Marian J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…1. Pioneering Women: Wives and Mothers, 1796-1830 -- 2. Defining Woman's Sphere: Women's Work, Religion, and Reform, 1830-1865 -- 3. …”
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Women and the Press : The Struggle for Equality / by Bradley, Patricia, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…"Are not women born as free as men?" -- The rise of the professional writer -- The legacy of reform -- The strains on sisterhood -- Domesticity and all its imperatives -- Negotiating the newsroom -- Negotiating the nation -- Finding a place -- The second wave -- Making a difference.…”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

Table of Contents: “…"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" …”
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Unexceptional Women : Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / by Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Unexceptional women : female proprietors in Albany, 1830-85 -- Female microentrepreneurs : linking stories and statistics -- Doing business : patterns and parameters -- Micronetworks and the family business economy -- Business or labor? …”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 / by Woods, Carly S.

Table of Contents: “…Making space for debating women -- "The first girls' debating club": creating a legacy at Oberlin College, 1835-1935 -- "Women of infinite variety": the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society as an intergenerational argument culture, 1865-1935 -- "Britain's brainy beauties": intercultural encounter on the 1928 British women's debate tour of the United States -- "Your gown is lovely, but -- " : negotiating citizenship at Pennsylvania state colleges, 1928-1945 -- Moving forward with debating women.…”
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Painting Women : Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture / by Phillippy, Patricia Berrahou, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter One. Painting Women: Spectacle and Subjectivity -- Chapter Two. …”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Women Count : A Guide to Changing the World / by Butler, Susan Bulkeley

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Women of Trachis / by Sophocles

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Women in German Expressionism : Gender, Sexuality, Activism /

Subjects: “…German literature Women authors. fast (OCoLC)fst00941882 144881…”
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Women of the Washington Press : Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…A new generation -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- World War II shatters precedents-at least for a time -- Parties, power, and protest in the sixties and early seventies -- Clothes, cameras, and determination to move into broadcasting -- A question of equity at the end of the twentieth century -- Women journalists confront today's media challenges.…”
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Medieval Women and Their Objects /

Table of Contents: “…Collette / Arlyn Diamond -- Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury -- Part 1. …”
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Transforming Women's Education : Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries / by Smith, Jewel A., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophies of women's education in the United States -- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education -- The dawn of a new era in women's education -- Seminary structure: A comparison -- Curricula: Academic and ornamental -- Music education for a young lady -- Instrumental music at the seminaries -- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Women's Experimental Cinema : Critical Frameworks /

Table of Contents: “…Wees -- Su Friedrich: breaking the rules / Janet Cutler -- The experimental "dunyementary": a cinematic signature effect / Kathleen McHugh -- Women's experimental cinema: some pedagogical challenges / Scott MacDonald.…”
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Women in Mongol Iran : The Kahtuns, 1206-1335 / by De Nicola, Bruno

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the study of women in the Mongol Empire -- Women and politics from the steppes to world empire -- Regents and empresses : women's rule in the Mongols' world empire -- Political involvement and women's rule in the Ilkhanate -- Women and the economy of the Mongol Empire -- Mongol women's encounters with Eurasian religions -- Concluding remarks.…”
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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate / by Förster, Annette

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Philo’s Perception of Women / by Sly, Dorothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Traditional Views of Women -- The State of Scholarship -- Philo's Language -- Woman and Virgin -- Biblical Women (I): Eve -- Biblical WOmen (II): The Others -- Biblical Virgins (I) -- Biblical (II): Sarah and Rebecca -- Biblical Virgins (III): Leah (Rachel), Dinah, Tamar, and Hannah -- Women of Philo's World -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Index.…”
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