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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

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