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Hippocrates' woman reading the female body in ancient Greece / by King, Helen

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Love and war : how militarism shapes sexuality and romance / by Digby, Tom, 1945-

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When women come first gender and class in transnational migration / by George, Sheba Mariam, 1966-

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All that makes a man love and ambition in the Civil War South / by Berry, Stephen William

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Infamous Bodies : Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights / by Pinto, Samantha

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The new world order corporate agenda and parallel reality /

Table of Contents: “…Women and the new world order: the "new" face of the Indian woman? /…”
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Disability, normalcy and the everyday /

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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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Shanghai gone domicide and defiance in a Chinese megacity / by Shao, Qin, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The Woman of a Thousand-and-one Petition -- Nightmares : Old and New -- Waving the Red Flag -- Barrack-room Lawyer -- Mr. …”
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The Made-Up State : Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia / by Hegarty, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Inhabiting Public Space -- Banci: Before Waria -- Jakarta, 1968 -- The Perfect Woman -- The Beauty Experts -- National Glamor -- Conclusion. …”
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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema : Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age / by García Blizzard, Mónica

Table of Contents: “…Idealized pre-Colombian womanhood -- Taming the Tehuana -- Revolutionary politics, colonized aesthetics -- Reframing Mestizaje: white, Myans, Indigenous spirituality, and Cenote suicides -- María Isabel: a white Indita for modern Mexico -- Indios, desire, and the white Mexican woman.…”
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The playing fields of Eton equality and excellence in modern meritocracy / by LaVaque-Manty, Mika

Table of Contents: “…Kids and Körperkultur : on the difficulties of fostering civic independence -- Dueling for equality : the master's tools will take down the master's house -- Mens sana, the playing fields of Eton, and other clichés -- Physical culture for the masses -- Being a woman and other disabilities -- The political theory of doping.…”
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Telling histories Black women historians in the ivory tower /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A telling history / Deborah Gray White -- Un essai d'ego-histoire / Nell Irvin Painter -- Becoming a Black woman's historian / Darlene Clark Hine -- A journey through history / Merline Pitre -- Being and thinking outside of the box : a Black woman's experience in academia / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- My history in history / Deborah Gray White -- The politics of memory and place : reflections of an African American female scholar / Sharon Harley -- History without illusion / Julie Saville -- On the margins : creating a space and place in the academy / Wanda A. …”
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From Curlers to Chainsaws : Women and Their Machines /

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; Hearth and Home; Norma Tilden -- Maytag Washer, 1939; Joyce Dyer -- My Mother's Singer; Psyche Williams-Forson -- If You Can't Stand the Heat: Ruminations on the Stove from an African American Woman; Rebecca McClanahan -- Sad-Iron, Glad-Iron; Joy Castro -- Grip; Bedroom and Birthing Room; E.J. …”
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From fetish to subject race, modernism, and primitivism, 1919-1935 / by Sweeney, Carole

Table of Contents: “…Constructing the modern primitive -- "I'll say it's getting darker and darker in Paris" : Josephine Baker and La revue n�egre -- Black woman/colonial body -- "Go to Harlem, it's sharper there" : negro : an anthology (1934) -- "A conceptual swindle" : surrealism, race and anticolonialism -- Diaspora and resistance : a 'French' black Atlantic and counterprimitivism.…”
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On creating a usable culture Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism / by Molloy, Maureen, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The problem of American culture -- The "jungle flapper" : civilization, repression, and the homogenous society -- "Lords of an empty creation" : masculinity, puritanism, and cultural stagnation -- "Every woman deviating from the code" : cultural lag, moral contagion, and social disintegration -- "Maladjustment of a worse order" : temperament, psychosexual misidentification, and the refuge of private life -- On creating a usable culture.…”
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The grand regulator the miseducation of Nova Scotia's teachers, 1838-1997 / by Perry, George D.

Table of Contents: “…Beyond "The mere giving of knowledge" : the elusive balance between scholarship and training, 1870-1926 -- pt. 3. Training as a woman's story, 1870-1961 : the licensing, training, and education of women teachers -- pt. 4. …”
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The horse in early modern English culture : bridled, curbed, and tamed / by De Ornellas, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Pricked more with the spur then the provender : hungry horses and Woodstock -- Agency and/or containment? : man/woman and horse/rider relationships in early modern England -- Trampling on the bald pate : Morocco the wonder horse and the humiliation of St. …”
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Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / by Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Sympathy and the American newspaper woman -- Representing institutions: asylums and prisons in American periodicals -- Scenes of sympathy in Margaret Fuller's New-York Tribune reportage -- Entering unceremoniously: Fanny Fern, sympathy, and tales of confinement -- Making a spectacle of herself: Nellie Bly, stunt reporting, and marketed sympathy -- Sympathy and sensation: Elizabeth Jordan, Lizzie Borden, and the female reporter in the late nineteenth-century -- Afterword.…”
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Gender myths v. working realities using social science to reformulate sexual harassment law / by Beiner, Theresa M.

Table of Contents: “…Making a more realistic assessment of what is sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute sexual harassment -- The reasonable woman standard : much ado about nothing? -- The conundrum of "unwelcome" sexual harassment -- Conceptualizing sexual harassment as "because of sex" -- Reality bites the Ellerth/Faragher standard for imputing liability to the employers for supervisor sexual harassment -- Making targets whole and deterring defendants -- The new sexual harassment claim.…”
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