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A woman's dilemma : Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution / by Zagarri, Rosemarie, 1957-

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Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism / by Silkey, Sarah L.

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Peace came in the form of a woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands / by Barr, Juliana

Table of Contents: “…Diplomatic ritual in the "land of the Tejas" -- Political kinship through settlement and marriage -- Civil alliance and "civility" in mission-presidio complexes -- Negotiating fear with violence : Apaches and Spaniards at midcentury -- Contests and alliances of norteño manhood : the road to truce and treaty -- Womanly "captivation" : political economies of hostage taking and hospitality.…”
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Madame de Staël, novelist : the emergence of the artist as woman / by Gutwirth, Madelyn

Woman and art in early modern Latin America

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New world courtships : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

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Between the queen and the cabby Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman / by Cole, John R. (John Richard), 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A translation of The rights of woman -- The dedication. Gouges's devotion to the king and defence of the queen ; Marie-Antoinette's reputation and the counter-revolution -- The declaration. …”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

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The not so blank "blank page" the politics of narrative and the woman narrator in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novel / by Tsomondo, Thorell Porter

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Christopher Smart and satire 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / by Wild, Min

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New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / by Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

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Romances of the republic women, the family, and violence in the literature of the early American nation / by Samuels, Shirley

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Our coquettes capacious desire in the eighteenth century / by Braunschneider, Theresa, 1971-

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We have raised all of you : motherhood in the South, 1750-1835 / by Smith, Katy Simpson, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…part I. They sprung from a woman : Indian mothers -- part II. Sowing good seeds : white mothers -- part III. …”
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The emerging female citizen gender and enlightenment in Spain / by Smith, Theresa Ann, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Developing ideologies of citizenship -- The woman question -- Admitted equals: art and letters -- On equal terms?…”
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Recognition in Mozart's operas by Waldoff, Jessica Pauline, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Operatic enlightenment in Die Zauberflöte -- Recognition scenes in theory and practice -- Reading opera for the plot -- Sentimental knowledge in La finta giardiniera -- Recognition denied in Don Giovanni -- Sense and sensibility in Cosi fan tutte -- Fiordiligi : a woman of feeling -- The sense of the ending in La clemenza di Tito.…”
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Liaisons dangereuses sex, law, and diplomacy in the age of Frederick the Great / by Lindemann, Mary

Table of Contents: “…-- A most difficult case -- A very diplomatic affair -- Dramatis personae -- Entr'acte -- A brave and upright cavalier? -- A woman of pleasure -- A real Polish prince, a fake Italian count, and an authentic Spanish hidalgo.…”
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The Fair sex white women and racial patriarchy in the early American Republic / by Schloesser, Pauline E.

Table of Contents: “…Race, gender, and woman citizenship in the American founding -- Toward a theory of racial patriarchy -- The ideology of the "fair sex" -- The philosopher queen and the U.S. constitution: Mercy Otis Warren as a reluctant signatory -- From revolution to racial patriarchy: the political pragmatism of Abigail Adams -- Gleaning a self between the lines: Judith Sargent Murray.…”
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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Domestic affairs intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / by Straub, Kristina, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The "servant problem" and the family -- "In the posture of children" : servants, family pedagogy, and sexuality -- Interpreting the woman servant : Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 1760 -- Dangerous intimacies : Roxana, Amy, and the crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 1767 -- Performing the manservant, 1730 to 1760 -- Men servants' sexuality in the novel, 1740 to 1794 -- Conclusion: Notes of a footman on "the servant problem," 1790.…”
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