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Race woman the lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois / by Horne, Gerald

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The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer : Romance and Reform in Victorian England / by Galchinsky, Michael

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Texas woman of letters, Karle Wilson Baker by Jackson, Sarah (Sarah R.)

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Tomorrow is another day the woman writer in the South, 1859-1936 / by Jones, Anne Goodwyn

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Seeking the beloved community a feminist race reader / by James, Joy, 1958-

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Christopher Smart and satire 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / by Wild, Min

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Women's Political and Social Thought : An Anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Declaration of the rights of woman and citizen /…”
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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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The Cramoisy queen a life of Caresse Crosby / by Hamalian, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Spunky little rich girl -- Polly meets Harry -- How Polly became Caresse -- A woman of many trades -- Treasures for the Black Sun Press -- The death of Harry Crosby -- Business or pleasure -- Atlantic crossings -- Mind over matter -- Old friends, new friends -- A woman of influence -- Back in the avant-garde -- Mondialization -- Fame -- A thirty-year plan -- How to run a castle -- Keeping the faith.…”
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Black internationalist feminism women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 / by Higashida, Cheryl

Table of Contents: “…The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions -- Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism -- Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag -- Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman -- Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism -- Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.…”
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The emerging female citizen gender and enlightenment in Spain / by Smith, Theresa Ann, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Developing ideologies of citizenship -- The woman question -- Admitted equals: art and letters -- On equal terms?…”
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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Alice Callahan's Wynema -- "A woman to let alone" : E. Pauline Johnson and the performance of anger -- Lost (and gained) in translation : language, anger, and agency in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes -- Conclusion : an anger of their own.…”
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Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science an astronomer among the American romantics / by Bergland, Renée L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Urania's island -- Nantucket Athena -- The sexes of science -- Miss Mitchell's comet -- "A center of rude eyes and tongues" -- The shoulders of giants -- The yankee Corinnes -- A mentor in Florence -- The war years -- Vassar Female College -- No miserable bluestocking -- "Good woman that she is" -- The undevout astronomer -- Retrograde motion -- Urania's inversion.…”
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Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran the life and legacy of a popular female artist / by Talattof, Kamran

Table of Contents: “…Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction -- Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony -- Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time -- Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film -- Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity -- Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists -- Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword.…”
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The busiest man in England Grant Allen and the writing trade, 1875-1900 / by Morton, Peter, 1946 Apr. 10-

Table of Contents: “…Dealing with the "dissenting grocer" -- 9. Retailing The woman who did -- 10. Last orders (1896-1899) -- Conclusion : "we of the proletariat..."…”
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Tell this silence Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Duncan, Patti, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: histories of immigration and exclusion of Asians in the U.S. in Maxine Hong Kingston's China men -- "White sound" and silences from stone : discursive silences in the internment writings of Mitsuye Yamada and Joy Kogawa -- Cartographies of silence : language and nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Silence and public discourse : interventions into dominant national and sexual narratives in Anchee Min's Red azalea and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives and feminist movement.…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / by Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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