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Educating Seeta : The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule / by Kapila, Shuchi, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The poetics and politics of Anglo-Indian romance -- "Half an Asiatic" : William Linneaus Gardner and Anglo-Muslim domesticity -- The home and the bazaar : the Anglo-Indian novels of Bithia Mary Croker -- Family quarrels : the royal widows and the East India Company -- Educating Seeta : Philip Meadows Taylor's romances of empire -- Why romance matters.…”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India / by Sreenivas, Mytheli

Table of Contents: “…Feminism, National Development, and Transnational Family Planning -- 4. Regulating Reproduction in the Era of the Planetary "Population Bomb" -- 5. …”
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Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / by LaMonaca, Maria

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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

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Certain Other Countries : Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales / by Conley, Carolyn, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Homicides: procedures, perceptions, and statistics -- National identity: foreigners and strangers -- Class, gender, and the fair fight -- Family and courtship -- Husbands and wives -- Children.…”
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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

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Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company : The Opening of Western New York by Chazanof, William, 1915-1999

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The great survey -- Many applicants, few buyers -- Reluctant politician -- The big family -- Roads and the unhappy taxpayer -- Problems of an expanding population -- The War of 1812 -- The Barik of Niagara -- The Grand Canal -- "Give in your demission yourself."…”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men : Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 /

Table of Contents: “…O'Brien -- The political is personal : black family manhood and the social science of E. Franklin Frazier, 1930-1945 / Malinda Alaine Lindquist -- Black masculinity and new precedents / Riche Richardson.…”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England / Erika Rappaport -- "Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white / Esther Godfrey -- "She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve / Tara MacDonald -- Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy Henry -- A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market / Narin Hassan -- Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future / Regenia Gagnier.…”
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia : Powhatan People and the Color Line / by Feller, Laura J. (Laura Janet)

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Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / by Stern, Rebecca

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