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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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Nurse-Midwifery : The Birth of a New American Profession / by Ettinger, Laura Elizabeth, 1968-

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Medical Bondage : Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology / by Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…American gynecology and black lives -- The birth of American gynecology -- Black women's experiences in slavery and medicine -- Contested relations: slavery, sex, and medicine -- Irish immigrant women and American gynecology -- Historical black superbodies and the medical gaze -- Afterword.…”
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The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Sarah Grand: the new woman as an imperialist feminist -- George Egerton: Nietzschean feminism -- Elizabeth Robins: women's self-determination vs. state control -- Amy Levy: the Anglo-Jewish new woman.…”
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Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France / by Horowitz, Sarah, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : friendship in post-revolutionary France -- The sentimental education of the political -- The politics of anomie -- Friends with benefits -- Post-revolutionary social networks -- The politics of male friendship -- The bonds of concord : women and politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Beranger, Chateaubriand, Guizot, and their friends -- Appendix B : detailed social networks in the 1820s and 1840s.…”
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The Chartist Imaginary : Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice / by Loose, Margaret A., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Chartism and the politics of form -- Ernest Jones and the poetics of internationalism -- Epic agency -- Revolutionary strategy and formal hybridity in Chartist fiction -- The gender legacy: women in early to late Chartist literature -- The politics of cognition in Chartist women's poetry.…”
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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870 / by Baader, Benjamin Maria

Table of Contents: “…The periodical Sulamith and the beginnings of bourgeois Judaism -- At the crossroads : politics of inclusion and emancipation -- Beyond halakhah : Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century -- The transformation of the culture of prayer -- Bourgeois synagogue devotion -- From male hevrot to modern Jewish voluntary associations -- Modern rabbis and Jewish women -- Conclusion : Women, men and the feminization of Judaism.…”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

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Dying to Be Beautiful : The Fight for Safe Cosmetics / by Kay, Gwen

Table of Contents: “…"A victory of the women of this country" -- "The arts and crafts of the modern flapper" -- "Marring the fair face of nature" -- "Some protection to our health, our looks and our pocketbooks" -- "The big cosmetic houses aren't sorry that the regulation has come."…”
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Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / by Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India / by Sreenivas, Mytheli

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Problems of misreading: the "prologue" to The legend of good women --…”
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Writing History in the Digital Age /

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History and Power in the Study of Law : New Directions in Legal Anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…The "invention" of early legal ideas: Sir Henry Maine and the perpetual tutelage of women /…”
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Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age / by Roberts, Benjamin, 1965-

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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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Apostasy and Jewish identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe : Are you still my brother?' / by Goldin, Simha

Table of Contents: “…Early beginnings -- Forced conversion during the First Crusade -- Theological confrontation with Christianity's success -- Self-definition and halakah -- Attitudes towards women -- Alternative perspectives: the literature of pietists (Ashkenazic hasidim) -- Converts to Judaism -- Conclusions: the change in mentality.…”
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