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From virile woman to womanChrist studies in medieval religion and literature / by Newman, Barbara, 1953-

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Prophetic woman : Anne Hutchinson and the problem of dissent in the literature of New England / by Lang, Amy Schrager

Reconstructing Woman : From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel / by Kelly, Dorothy, 1952-

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The Woman in the Window : Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel / by Valentino, Russell Scott, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: In search of (Russian) virtue -- Three modern characters : the double, the con man, and the woman in the window -- The commercial ethic in Gogol's Dead souls -- In search of the virtuous man : minor readings -- Lara, Lolita, and other things that start with L -- Conclusion: DeLillo's Cosmopolis and the end of an idiom.…”
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Writing the pioneer woman by Floyd, Janet

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Woman and Chinese modernity the politics of reading between West and East / by Chow, Rey

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Transcending the new woman multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / by Rich, Charlotte J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America -- Suffragist or "squaw"? …”
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The woman in the muslin mask veiling and identity in postcolonial literature / by Grace, Daphne, 1954-

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The political woman in print : German women's writing 1845-1919 / by Mikus, Birgit, 1982-

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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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Every inch a woman phallic possession, femininity, and the text / by Brooks, Carellin

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Listening to Old Woman speak natives and alternatives in Canadian literature / by Groening, Laura Smyth, 1949-

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Portraits of the new Negro woman visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance / by Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"A plea for color" : Nella Larsen's textual tableaux -- Jessie Fauset's new Negro woman artist and the passing market -- "Black beauty betrayed" : the modernist mulatta in black and white -- The geography of the mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Redressing the new Negro woman.…”
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"Woman, your hour is sounding" continuity and change in French women's Great War fiction, 1914-1919 / by Goldberg, Nancy Sloan

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Woman's songs in ancient Greece by Klinck, Anne Lingard, 1943-

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Spinster tales and womanly possibilities by Rosenthal, Naomi Braun, 1940-

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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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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 captive woman's lament in Greek tragedy by Dué, Casey, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Men's songs and women's songs -- Identifying with the enemy : love, loss, and longing in The Persians of Aeschylus -- Athenians and Trojans -- The captive woman's lament and her revenge in Euripides' Hecuba -- A river shouting with tears : Euripides' Trojan women -- The captive woman in the house : Euripides' Andromache.…”
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The woman in Latin American and Spanish literature essays on iconic characters /

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