Search Results - "Mothers"

Making modern mothers ethics and family planning in urban greece / by Paxson, Heather, 1968-

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Mother Leakey and the bishop a ghost story / by Marshall, Peter, 1964-

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Classifying fashion, fashioning class : making sense of women's practices, perceptions and tastes / by Appleford, Katherine, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : classifying fashion, fashioning class -- Women talking dirty : making sense of fashion & class -- Class fashion or consumer fashion : the relevance of class in contemporary fashion consumption -- Fashioning a performance : respectability, femininity & space -- Dressing up : performance, perceptions & practice -- Looking good : fashion, (dis)taste & buying practices -- Mothers & motherhood : nurturing the fashion-class relationship -- Conclusion.…”
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Jacob's legacy a genetic view of Jewish history / by Goldstein, David B.

Table of Contents: “…The Black Jews of South Africa -- Looking out for number two : the case of the Ashkenazi Levites -- Those Jewish mothers : the development of female-defined ethnicity in the Jewish diaspora -- Look on mine affliction : genetic diseases and Jewish history -- Jews, genes, and the future.…”
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Japanese Demon Lore Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / by Reider, Noriko T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni.…”
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Japanese Demon Lore : Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / by Reider, Noriko T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni.…”
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Japanese Demon Lore : Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / by Reider, Noriko T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Shuten Doji (drunken demon): a medieval story of the carnivalesque and the rise of warriors and fall of oni -- Women spurned, revenge of oni women: gender and space -- Yamauba, the mountain ogress: old hag to voluptuous mother -- Oni in urban culture: de-demonization of the oni -- The oni and Japanese identity: enemies of the Japanese empire in and out of the imperial army -- Sex, violence, and victimization: modern oni and lonely Japanese -- Oni in manga, anime, and film -- Oni without negatives: selfless and surrealistic oni.…”
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I, Maya Plisetskaya by Pliset͡skai͡a, Maĭi͡a Mikhaĭlovna, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…The dacha and Sretenka Street -- What I was like at five -- Relatives -- Spitzbergen -- I study ballet -- Back in school and father's arrest -- My mother disappears -- Chimkent -- Concert for the Cheka -- Tchaikovsky's ʼImpromptuʼ -- The war -- My first year at the Bolshoi Theater -- The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -- Mastering the ABCs of the theater -- ʼRaymondaʼ -- ʼSwan Lakeʼ -- Youth festivals -- My injuries, my healers -- Who'll get whom! …”
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A taste of power : food and American identities / by Vester, Katharina

Table of Contents: “…the making of a republican cuisine -- In search of an American cuisine: national identity and food -- "All my bones were made of Indian corn" : maize, revolution, and democracy -- An American painter's palate : Raphaelle Peale's food still lifes -- Domestic virtue and citizenship in Lydia Maria Child -- "Bread of our mothers" : Sylvester Graham and the health of the nation -- Cooking contest : regional, transnational, and class-based cuisines in the Antebellum U.S -- A republican cuisine -- "Wolf in chef's clothing" : manly cooking and negotiations of ideal masculinity -- Why the way to the heart is through the stomach -- "Men, meet the kitchen" : inventing manly cooking -- Flesh, blood, and Hemingway : campfire cooking and rugged masculinities -- Hardboiled cooking, femmes fatales, and American Noir -- Silver Spoons in their hands : the rise of the gourmet -- Playboys in the kitchen: manly cooking in the 1950s and 60s -- "Will cook for sex" : recipes for manly cooking -- "The difference is spreading" : recipes for lesbian living -- "Serving heteronormativity/queering the menu" -- Labor of love : gender-normativity and contradiction in 19th century cookbooks -- Tender Mutton: Gertrude Stein's household advice -- "La cuisine c'est la femme" : the Alice B. …”
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Digital qualitative research in sport and physical activity /

Table of Contents: “…: feminist approaches to digital sport media research / Dunja Antunovic -- Understanding athletes' online participation : a ticket to qualitative research on online sports arenas / Urban CARLÉN and Ninitha Maivorsdotter -- Guarding against quick and easy : tightening up qualitative sport and social media research / Jimmy Sanderson -- Research consideration when investigating psychological factors and health-related issues in online contexts / Matthew Hall and Sarah Grogan -- Mommy blogging : understanding athlete-mother identities in a running community using discursive psychological analysis / Kerry McGannon and Jenny McMahon -- Unless you go online you're on your own : blogging as a bridge in para-sport / Andrea Bundon and Laura Hurd Clarke -- Sponsorship goes social : analyzing Twitter users' discussion of French Open sponsors / Elizabeth Delia and Cole Armstrong -- Shaky footage from the field : envisioning a new terrain with film-based inquiry / Yosuke Washiya -- Afterword : sport's digital future: Biodigital design, e-sport, mixed reality, fan engagement and gamification / Andy Miah.…”
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Celebrating 100 years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009

Table of Contents: “…Hooked on Texas / Clarence Jay Faulkner -- Beware of folklore addiction / Scott Hill Bumgardner -- McDade and me / Vicky Rose -- Mother lodes of Mexican lore / Lucy Fischer West -- Bibliography of Mexican-American folklore articles -- Dobie's disciples and the Choctaw Five / Tim Tingle -- The Texas Folklore Society was part of my life long before I knew It / Jean Granberry Schnitz -- The family nature of the Texas Folklore Society / Kenneth L. …”
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