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Colonial subjects Puerto Ricans in a global perspective / by Grosfoguel, Ramón

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Subject matter technology, the body, and science on the Anglo-American frontier, 1500-1676 / by Chaplin, Joyce E.

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Jewish subjects and their tribal chieftains in Kurdistan a study in survival / by Zaken, Mordechai

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Collective action a Bad Subjects anthology /

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Identity parades Northern Irish culture and dissident subjects / by Kirkland, Richard

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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl : The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia / by Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Girls education as a unifying discourse -- Forging sharif subjects -- Desirable and failed citizen-subjects -- The empowered girl -- Akbari and Asghari reappear -- Tracing storylines.…”
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Film, Comedy, and Disability : Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability / by Wilde, Alison

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Comedy and Disability; Chapter 3: Contemporary Comedy: Subjectivity, Genre, and Impairment; Chapter 4: Romantic Comedy and Disability; Chapter 5: Romantic Comedy Meets Satire: Yorgos Lanthimos --The Lobster; Chapter 6: The Gross-Out Genre, the Farrelly Brothers, and Disability: Mapping Representational Change; Chapter 7: Conclusion, or When is an Ending not an Ending?…”
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Jesus in our wombs embodying modernity in a Mexican convent / by Lester, Rebecca J., 1969-

“…Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;…”
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"Closer to the truth than any fact" memoir, memory, and Jim Crow / by Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Autobiography and the transformation of historical understanding -- Subjectivity and the felt experience of history -- Literary techniques and historical understanding -- African American memoirists remember Jim Crow -- White memoirists remember Jim Crow -- Talking of another world.…”
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The gay archipelago : sexuality and nation in Indonesia / by Boellstorff, Tom, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…part one. The Indonesian subject -- part two. Opening to gay and lesbi worlds -- part three. …”
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Race trouble race, identity and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa / by Durrheim, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Apartheid, racism and change in South Africa -- Experiences of race trouble -- Theories of racism won't do -- Discourse -- Practices -- Subjects -- Repression -- Race trouble versus racism.…”
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Law and disorder in the postcolony

Table of Contents: “…Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- The mute and the unspeakable: political subjectivity, violent, crime, and "the sexual thing" in a South African mining community / Rosalind C. …”
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The flaming womb repositioning women in early modern Southeast Asia / by Andaya, Barbara Watson

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Women and "Southeast Asia" -- Early modernity, sources, and women's history -- Women and religious change -- Women and economic change -- States, subjects, and households -- Women, courts, and class -- Being female in "early modern" Southeast Asia -- Conclusion.…”
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The Writing Public : Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France / by Bond, Elizabeth Andrews

Table of Contents: “…The production and distribution of the information press -- The writers, self-presentation, and subjectivity -- Reading together, book references and reading practices -- Popular science and public participation -- Agricultural reform and local innovation -- Bienfaisance, fellow-feeling, and the public good -- Communicating the revolution.…”
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Scepter of Judah the Jewish autonomy in the eighteenth-century Crown Poland / by Ḳaliḳ, Yehudit

Table of Contents: “…The development of Jewish autonomy -- The structure of Jewish autonomy -- Jewish demography and geography -- The administrative structure of the urban Jewish population -- The administrative structure of the rural Jewish population -- The "leaseholders' belt" -- Jewish political leadership -- A case study: the Jewish subjects of Kazimierz Granowski, Voivode of Rawa.…”
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An Archive of Taste : Race and Eating in the Early United States / by Klein, Lauren F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : no eating in the archive -- Taste : eating and aesthetics in the early United States -- Appetite : eating, embodiment, and the tasteful subject -- Satisfaction : aesthetics, speculation, and the theory of cookbooks -- Imagination : food, fiction, and the limits of taste -- Absence : slavery and silence in the archive of eating -- Epilogue : two portraits of taste.…”
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Rural women in urban China gender, migration, and social change / by Jacka, Tamara, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. …”
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Growing up global economic restructuring and children's everyday lives / by Katz, Cindi, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Fluid dynamics -- A child's day in Howa -- The political economy and ecology of Howa village -- Social reproduction -- Children's work and play -- Knowing subjects/abstracting knowledge -- Disrupted landscapes of production and reproduction -- Displacements -- New York parallax; or, you can't drive a Chevy through a post-fordist landscape -- Howa at the end of the millennium -- Topographies of global capitalism -- The strange familiar -- Negotiating the recent future.…”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Widows and the literary imagination -- Subjects of counsel -- Objects of desire -- Sex in the city -- To her alone pertains the governance of all her house (Gaspar Astete) -- Master and mistress of the household -- Father and mother of their children -- A widow's work is never done -- Worthy recipients and pious donors -- Widowhood, poverty, and charity -- Family, memory, and the sacralization of urban space -- Coda. …”
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A different place in the making : the everyday life practices of Chinese rural migrants in urban villages / by Yuan, Yan, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Re-grounding the migratory subjects in place -- The politics of place-making and the geography of migrant settlement in urban China -- Doing ethnography in urban villages -- Street life in the urban villages -- Co-inhabitation and transformation : knowing the locality through housing -- Possession, location, connection : the place of television in home-making -- The politics of place in the spring festival -- A televised spring festival and its consumption in the urban villages -- Conclusions.…”
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