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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

Table of Contents: “…"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" …”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Women in German Expressionism : Gender, Sexuality, Activism /

Subjects: “…German literature Women authors. fast (OCoLC)fst00941882 144881…”
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Medieval Women and Their Objects /

Table of Contents: “…Collette / Arlyn Diamond -- Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury -- Part 1. …”
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Transforming Women's Education : Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries / by Smith, Jewel A., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophies of women's education in the United States -- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education -- The dawn of a new era in women's education -- Seminary structure: A comparison -- Curricula: Academic and ornamental -- Music education for a young lady -- Instrumental music at the seminaries -- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Women's Experimental Cinema : Critical Frameworks /

Table of Contents: “…Wees -- Su Friedrich: breaking the rules / Janet Cutler -- The experimental "dunyementary": a cinematic signature effect / Kathleen McHugh -- Women's experimental cinema: some pedagogical challenges / Scott MacDonald.…”
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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate / by Förster, Annette

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From Old Woman to Older Women : Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives / by Chivers, Sally, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Old age, literature, and potential -- Situating old women : fields of inquiry -- The mirror has two faces : Simone de Beauvoir's and Margaret Laurence's ambivalent representations -- Generation gaps and the potential of grandmotherhood -- Here, every minute is ninety seconds : fictional perspectives on nursing home care -- Living life seriatim : friendship and interdependence in late-life fiction and semifiction.…”
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Women Poets and the American Sublime / by Diehl, Joanne Feit, 1947-

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Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement / by Collins, Lucy, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography…”
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Ben Sira’s View of Women : A Literary Analysis / by Trenchard, Warren C. (Warren Charles)

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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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Spoiling the Stories : The Rise of Israeli Women's Fiction / by Merin, Tamar, 1975-

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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

Subjects: “…Women travelers in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01178648 147565…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

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Little Songs : Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet / by Billone, Amy Christine, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: Isabella Southern and the turn to the twentieth century -- Women's renunciation of the sonnet form.…”
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Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / by Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.…”
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