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When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / by Craig, Layne Parish

Table of Contents: “…: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga -- Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf -- That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem -- Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas -- She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.…”
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Christian Hebraism in the Reformation era (1500-1660) authors, books, and the transmission of Jewish learning / by Burnett, Stephen G.

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a Christian Hebrew reading public -- Hebraist authors and their supporters: centers, peripheries, and the growth of an academic Hebrew culture -- Hebraist authors and the mediation of Jewish scholarship -- Judaica libraries: imagined and real -- The Christian Hebrew book market: printers and booksellers -- Press controls and the Hebraist discourse in Reformation Europe.…”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Political writings by Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

Table of Contents: “…An Inquiry" -- Dreiser Sees No Progress -- A Word Concerning Birth Control -- Contribution to "The Rights of a Columnist: A Symposium on the Case of Heywood Broun versus the New York World" -- From "Dreiser Looks at Russia" -- PART 3: 1929-1937 -- Historical Commentary -- Dreiser Discusses Dewey Plan -- John Reed Club Answer -- Mooney and America -- On the Communists and Their Platform -- The American Press and American Political Prisoners -- Speech on the Scottsboro Case -- Interview with Nazife Osman Pasha -- From "Tragic America" -- Introduction to "Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields" -- America -- The Child and the School -- Editorial Note on the New Deal and Soviet Policy -- The "Is Dreiser Anti-Semitic?" …”
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