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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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Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Born of the Same Roots : Stories of Modern Chinese Women /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / by Brennan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…The cold war world -- Who were these women? -- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.…”
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Las mujeres en la Nueva España : educación y vida cotidiana / by Gonzalbo, Pilar, 1935-

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Alaska's Daughter : An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century / by Pinson, Elizabeth Bernhardt, 1912-

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Listening For A Life : A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / by Sawin, Patricia

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The Time of the Sign : A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs : Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grasslands / by Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela, 1958-

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Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

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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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Restaging the Past : Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Historical pageants, citizenship and the performance of women's history before Second-Wave Feminism /…”
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Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age / by Roberts, Benjamin, 1965-

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Unearthing Gender : Folksongs of North India / by Jassal, Smita Tewari

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Orpheus in America / by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Table of Contents: “…Before my departure -- The crossing -- New York, the Gilmore Garden -- The house, the street, the cars -- The theatres of New York -- The restaurants, three types of waiters -- Women, the introductions, the park -- The story of two statues -- The liberties in America -- Organizations -- Advertising -- The races -- The American press -- Some portraits -- Philadelphia -- Offenbach Garden -- To Niagara, Pullman cars -- Niagara Falls -- The Dauphin Eleazar -- Returning from Niagara sleeping cars -- The tortures of a musician -- Banquets, baton, and Brevet -- Farewell soiree -- The return.…”
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