Search Results - "Woman"

The old woman, the tulip, and the dog / by Ostriker, Alicia

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Women, gender and everyday social transformation in India /

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Surviving the colonialist legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush : a native woman elder's liberatory and integrative storytelling turn /…”
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Dinarzad's children an anthology of contemporary Arab American fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Shaping identities: Lost in freakin' Yonkers / Randa Jarrar -- He had dreamed of returning / Pauline Kaldas -- First snow / Khaled Mattawa -- The fifty-foot woman / Nabeel Abraham -- The Lebanon-Detroit Express / Alia Yunis -- The American way / Frances Khirallah Noble.…”
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The animal girl two novellas and three stories / by Fulton, John, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Hunters -- Real grief -- The animal girl -- A small matter -- The sleeping woman.…”
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Shanghai gone domicide and defiance in a Chinese megacity / by Shao, Qin, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The Woman of a Thousand-and-one Petition -- Nightmares : Old and New -- Waving the Red Flag -- Barrack-room Lawyer -- Mr. …”
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Figures of Southeast Asian modernity

Table of Contents: “…Hajj / Dadi Darmadi -- Rich person / Joshua Barker -- Career woman / Carla Jones --…”
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Crossing through Chueca lesbian literary culture in Queer Madrid / by Robbins, Jill, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : marching toward marriage -- A brief history of Chueca and Madrid's Queer space -- Lesbian literary identities in the Madrid book business -- The new safita: Andalusia and the phallic woman in Plumas de España -- Lesbian-themed best-sellers and the politics of acceptance -- Dislocations : identity and communication in Cenicienta en Chueca -- Popular lesbian fiction : romance, literature, and legislation -- Conclusion : toward lesbian visibility.…”
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Emancipation's Daughters : Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body / by Richardson, Riche, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…An Exemplary American Woman -- Mary McLeod Bethune's "My Last Will and Testament" and Her National Legacy -- From Rosa Parks's Quiet Strength to Memorializing a National Mother -- America's Chief Diplomat: The Politics of Condoleezza Rice from Autobiography to Art and -- Fashion -- First Lady and "Mom-in-Chief": The Voice and Vision of Michelle Obama in the Video South -- Side Girl and in American Grown -- Beyonce's South and the Birth of a "Formation" Nation…”
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Islamicate societies a case study of Egypt and Muslim India, modernization, colonial rule, and the aftermath / by Kassim, Husain, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction: What this study is about -- Chapter 1: The Historical Landscape of Egypt and Muslim India as Islamic Societies Prior to Colonial Rule -- Chapter 2: Shifting Identities : The 'Islamicate' Societies of Egypt, Muslim India (Pakistan), Muslims in India, and its aftermath -- Chapter 3: Ethnicity and Minorities -- Chapter 4: Transformation of Traditional Islamic Language and Literature into a Modern 'Islamicate' Literature -- Chapter 5: Legal System and Judicial Institutions of Egypt and Muslim India -- Chapter 6: Education, Educational System and Islamization Project of Knowledge -- Chapter 7: An 'Islamicate' Woman: Gender Relations and Women's Rights.…”
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Brenda is in the room & other poems / by Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…A history of light -- My embodiment -- Before the sea was molten -- Like a pebble in space is like a planet -- I am a woman's lover -- 5. Poem to read at my wedding.…”
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Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond : feminist ecocriticism of science fiction /

Table of Contents: “…'Extinction is forever' : ecofeminism and apocalypse in Louise Lawrence's young adult short fiction / Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammel -- Ecofeminist utopian speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale's A Few hours in a far-off age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley's A Woman of Mars; or, Australia's enfranchised woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent's The Celestial hand: a sensational story / Nicole Anae -- Alien ecofeminist societies : sharers in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into ocean / Irene Sanz Alonso -- Re-reading Ursula K. …”
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Reborn of crisis : 9/11 and the resurgent superhero / by Hagley, Annika, 1983-, Harrison, Michael, 1975-

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Narkomania : Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine / by Carroll, Jennifer J., 1981-

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An ethical compass coming of age in the 21st century : the ethics prize of the Elie Wiesel foundation for humanity /

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Reading like a girl narrative intimacy in contemporary American young adult literature / by Day, Sara K.

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Women and inequality in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…An unrealized democracy -- Gender scholar spotlight : interview with amrita chakrabarti myers -- Beauty and the beast of inequality: a historical synopsis of women's images as barriers in american labor, politics and entertainment / Kimberly Brown Pellum -- Proper defectum sexus : male privilege over a woman's body / Omar Swartz and Candace Nunag-Hicks -- Democracy, power, and work / Elizabeth Gregory -- Negotiating inequitable terrain -- Gender scholar spotlight : interview with jen jack gieseking -- Unfiltered : male strangers' sexist behavior towards women / Melissa Ochoa Garza -- I am american! …”
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