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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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German Writing, American Reading : Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 / by Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : made in Germany, read in America -- German women writers at home and abroad -- "Family likenesses" : Marlitt's texts as American books -- The German art of the happy ending : embellishing and expanding the boundaries of home -- Enduring domesticity : German novels of remarriage -- Feminized history : German men in American translation -- Family matters in postbellum America : Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman (1813-91) -- German fiction clothed in "so brilliant a garb" : Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908) -- Germany at twenty-five cents a copy : Mary Stuart Smith (1834-1917).…”
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Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / by Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Induction : Joice Heth -- On secrecy, magic, and Black women playwrights -- The one-acts -- Exeunt : an illusion.…”
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Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

Subjects: “…Speculative fiction 20th century Women authors History and criticism. 162457…”
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Philosophies of Sex : Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite /

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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Imoinda's original shades : African women in British antislavery literature. Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine -- Part two. …”
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Act Like A Man : Challenging Masculinities in American Drama / by Vorlicky, Robert, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The American masculine ethos, male mythologies, and absent women --…”
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Literary Identification from Charlotte Bronte to Tsitsi Dangarembga / by Green, Laura Morgan

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Narrative Theory Unbound : Queer and Feminist Interventions /

Table of Contents: “…Empathy and 1970s novels by Third World women /…”
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Fictions of the Bad Life : The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 / by Solomon, Claire

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Feminist Narrative Ethics : Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form / by Nash, Katherine Saunders, 1973-

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Neodomestic American Fiction / by Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973-

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