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From pink to green disease prevention and the environmental breast cancer movement / by Ley, Barbara L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…A movement in the making -- "End the silence" : uncertainty work and the politics of the cancer industry -- From touring the streets to taking on science -- "We should not have to be the bodies of evidence" : the precautionary principle in policy, science, and daily life -- The cultural politics of sisterhood -- Toxic tours move indoors : race, class, and breast cancer prevention -- Beyond breast cancer, beyond women's health -- Still in the making.…”
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Labor's home front the American Federation of Labor during World War II / by Kersten, Andrew Edmund, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The politics of "equality of sacrifice" : the AFL and wartime labor relations -- Putting the shackles on labor : the AFL and the fight against the open shop -- Building ships for democracy : the AFL, the boilermakers, and wartime racial justice in Portland and Providence -- "Under the stress of necessity" : women and the AFL -- Union against union : the AFL and CIO rivalry -- Death in the factories : worker safety and the AFL -- Planning America's future : the AFL and postwar planning.…”
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Occupying power sex workers and servicemen in postwar Japan / by Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a special business -- "To transship them to some suitable island" : making policy in the midst of chaos -- Violence, commerce, marriage -- When flesh glittered : selling sex in Sasebo and Tokyo -- Legislating women : the push for a prostitution prevention law -- The high politics of base pleasures : regulating morality for the postwar era -- The presence of the past : controversies over sex work since 1956 -- Conclusion : beyond victimhood.…”
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La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / by Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.…”
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Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain : Networks, Power, and Everyday Life / by Kekki, Saara, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Network Analysis and the Study of Japanese American History -- From Immigration to Incarceration: The Japanese in the United States, 1890-1942 -- Heart Mountain Community and Modeling the Networks -- Those Who Govern: Political Power -- Sense of Belonging -- Individuals of Power and Power Families -- Women of Heart Mountain -- Disobedience behind Barbed Wire: Passive and Active Resistance -- Onward: Routes to Freedom -- Epilogue: Networks of Power and the Power of Networks.…”
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Alabama in the twentieth century by Flynt, Wayne, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the 1901 constitution -- Every man for himself : politics, Alabama style -- Selling Alabama : the economy -- Life from the bottom up : society -- Teaching the people : education -- On and off the pedestal : women -- Counting behind white folks : African Americans -- Fighting mad : Alabamians at war -- Beyond the game : the social significance of sports -- What would Jesus do? …”
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Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain : Networks, Power, and Everyday Life / by Kekki, Saara, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Network Analysis and the Study of Japanese American History -- From Immigration to Incarceration: The Japanese in the United States, 1890-1942 -- Heart Mountain Community and Modeling the Networks -- Those Who Govern: Political Power -- Sense of Belonging -- Individuals of Power and Power Families -- Women of Heart Mountain -- Disobedience behind Barbed Wire: Passive and Active Resistance -- Onward: Routes to Freedom -- Epilogue: Networks of Power and the Power of Networks.…”
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La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / by Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.…”
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Coming after essays on poetry / by Notley, Alice, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Poets -- O'Hara in the nineties -- Joanne Kyger's poetry -- Ron Padgett's visual imagination -- Hollo's Corvus -- Elmslie's routine disruptions -- Eileen Myles in performance -- A certain slant of sunlight -- Iovis Omnia Plena -- Lorenzo Thomas : a private public space -- Douglas Oliver's New York poem -- Steve -- Topics -- American poetic music at the moment -- Voice -- Thinking and poetry -- Women and poetry -- The "feminine" epic.…”
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Faithful vision treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism -- The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox -- Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation -- Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality -- Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo -- Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.…”
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Glory and agony Isaac's sacrifice and national narrative / by Feldman, Yael S., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…: the Isaac generation, 1967-1973 -- Manic Abrahams vs. women's peace, 1975-1995 -- Afterword : a state of exception: a view from the present.…”
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Screening Morocco contemporary film in a changing society / by Orlando, Valérie, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Moroccan national cinema: the making of an industry -- Theories and polemics: Moroccan films as social-realist texts -- Issues, contexts, and "culture wars": Marocains residants é l'etranger (MREs) versus filmmakers at home -- Bad boys, drugs, and rock 'n' roll: the urban stories of Morocco -- Prison, torture, and testimony: retelling the memories of the lead years -- Women's voices: documenting Morocco through feminine lenses -- Conclusion: the future of Moroccan cinema?.…”
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Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / by Osteen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.…”
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Maternalism reconsidered motherhood, welfare and social policy in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Rebecca Jo Plant and Marian van der Klein -- Beyond maternalism / Sonya Michel -- The state, the women's movement and maternity insurance, 1900-1930 : a Dutch maternalism? …”
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Nordic exposures Scandinavian identities in classical Hollywood cinema / by Lunde, Arne Olav

Table of Contents: “…Scandinavians, the talkie revolution, and the crisis of foreign voice -- Charlie Chan is Swedish: the Asian racial masquerades and Nordic otherness of Warner Oland -- Two-faced women: Hollywood's and Third Reich cinema's war for the Nordic female star.…”
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Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.…”
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Anti-Japan : The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia / by Ching, Leo T. S., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…When Bruce Lee meets Gojira : transimperial characters, anti-Japanism, anti-Americanism, and the failure of decolonization -- "Japanese devils" : the conditions and limits of anti-Japanism in China -- Shameful bodies, bodily shame : "comfort women" and anti-Japanism in South Korea -- Colonial nostalgia or postcolonial anxiety : the Dōsan generation in-between "retrocession" and "defeat" -- "In the name of love" : critical regionalism and co-viviality in post-East Asia -- Reconciliation otherwise : intimacy, indigeneity, and the Taiwan difference.…”
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Anti-Japan : The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia / by Ching, Leo T. S., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…When Bruce Lee meets Gojira : transimperial characters, anti-Japanism, anti-Americanism, and the failure of decolonization -- "Japanese devils" : the conditions and limits of anti-Japanism in China -- Shameful bodies, bodily shame : "comfort women" and anti-Japanism in South Korea -- Colonial nostalgia or postcolonial anxiety : the Dōsan generation in-between "retrocession" and "defeat" -- "In the name of love" : critical regionalism and co-viviality in post-East Asia -- Reconciliation otherwise : intimacy, indigeneity, and the Taiwan difference.…”
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Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / by Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. …”
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Scarecrows of chivalry English masculinities after empire / by Gopinath, Praseeda, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A. S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the post-gentlemen -- Epilogue: The postcolonial gentleman.…”
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