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Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / by Doyle, Nora

Table of Contents: “…In search of the maternal body -- The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature -- Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives -- The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother -- Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood -- The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture -- Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture -- In search of the maternal body past and present.…”
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Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / by Castle, Terry

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The Expense of Spirit : Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama / by Rose, Mary Beth

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The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel : Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries / by Andres, Sophia, 1950-

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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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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

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A Reader's Guide to Dorothy Richardson's 'Pilgrimage' / by Thomson, George H., 1924-

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Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassination : Recent Poetry and Fiction /

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Intimate Communities : Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 / by Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue in triptych -- Introduction -- Policing the public in the new capital -- Appearing in public : the relationships at the heart of the nation -- Healing to kill the true internal enemy -- Authority in the halls of science : women of the wards -- Mothers for the nation -- Conclusion.…”
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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

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Justine Lacoste-Beaubien et l'Hôpital Sainte-Justine by Forget, Nicolle

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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage : Boy Heroines and Female Pages / by Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters Women.…”
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Notes on 'Pilgrimage' : Dorothy Richardson Annotated / by Thomson, George H., 1924-

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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights : Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940 / by Rosen, Robyn L.

Subjects: “…Women social reformers. fast (OCoLC)fst01178540 149426…”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Imoinda's original shades : African women in British antislavery literature. Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine -- Part two. …”
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Gender and Petty Violence in London, 1680-1720 / by Hurl-Eamon, Jennine

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Unlikely Entrepreneurs : Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865-1925 / by Wall, Barbra Mann

Subjects: “…Monasticism and religious orders for women. fast (OCoLC)fst01025166 148423…”
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Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / by LaMonaca, Maria

Table of Contents: “…Extravagant creature worship: Protestant and Catholic "sermons" on marriage -- "Sick souls": love, guilt, and the Catholic confessional in Victorian women's fiction -- Narratives of female celibacy -- "Hoc est corpus meum": Aurora Leigh, Goblin Market, and transubstantiation -- The "Queen of heaven" or a very confused nun? …”
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The Improvement of the Estate : A Study of Jane Austen's Novels / by Duckworth, Alistair M., 1936-

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