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Born of the Same Roots : Stories of Modern Chinese Women /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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The private roots of public action gender, equality, and political participation / by Burns, Nancy, 1964-

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Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / by Bell, Shannon Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…: Maria Gunnoe's fight for her children's health and safety -- We became two determined women : Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller become the sylvester dustbusters -- Let us live in our mountains : Joan Linville's fight for her homeland -- You gotta go and do everything you can--fight for your kids : Donetta Blankenship speaks out against underground slurry injections -- It's just a part of who I am : Maria Lambert and the movement for clean water in Prenter -- I'm not an activist against coal, I'm an activist for the preservation of my state : Teri Blanton and the fight for justice in Kentucky -- I'm not going to be run out, I'm not going to be run over, I'm not going out without a fight : Patty Sebok's battle against monster coal trucks -- Our roots run so deep, you can't distinguish us from the earth we live on : Debbie Jarrell and the campaign to move Marsh Fork elementary school -- It's not just what I choose to do, it's also, I think, what I have to do : Lorelei Scarboro's drive to save coal river mountain -- Money cannot recreate what nature gives you : Donna Branham's struggle against mountaintop removal -- I want my great-great-grandchildren to be able to live on this earth! …”
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The tangled roots of feminism, environmentalism, and Appalachian literature by Engelhardt, Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche, 1969-

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The economic emergence of women by Bergmann, Barbara R.

Table of Contents: “…Occupational segregation by sex : the root of women's disadvantage --…”
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Revolutionary womanhood feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt / by Bier, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism -- Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman" -- Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws -- The family is a factory : regulating reproduction -- Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries.…”
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Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 / by Roces, Mina, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The religious roots of women's oppression -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women -- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure) -- Women's studies on the air -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces.…”
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Women's health psychology

Table of Contents: “…Women's health in context -- Historical roots of women's healthcare / Heather Munro Prescott and Wendy Kline -- Using intersectionality to study women's health / Lisa Bowleg -- Employment and women's health / Nancy L. …”
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Constituting Workers, Protecting Women : Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years / by Novkov, Julie, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking the constitutional crisis of the 1930s : the forgotten doctrinal roots of the modern welfare state -- Generalized balancing : the early struggles over protective labor legislation -- Specific balancing : regulating labor and laborers -- Laborer-centered analysis : the ascendancy of women's legislation -- Gendered rebalancing : minimum wages and the battle over equality -- Reflecting on gender, due process, and constitutional development.…”
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Battling pornography the American feminist anti-pornography movement, 1976-1986 / by Bronstein, Carolyn

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To know her own history : writing at the woman's college, 1943-1963 / by Ritter, Kelly

Table of Contents: “…Her history matters: the United States normal school and the roots of women's public education -- In her own words: the yearling and first-year writing, 1948-51 -- Revisionist history: general education reform from Harvard University to the woman's college, 1943-56 -- The double-helix of creative/composition: Randall Jarrell, May Bush, and the politics of writing programs, 1947-63 -- What's in a name? …”
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The Time of the Sign : A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Caterpillar / Lao She -- Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang -- On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung -- Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng -- West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin -- Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua -- Parting / Tʻien Tʻao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yü Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu -- May he return soon / Wang Tʻo -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.…”
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North Carolinians in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Table of Contents: “…Edwards -- No longer under cover(ture) : marriage, divorce, and gender in the 1868 Constitutional Convention / Karin Zipf -- Different colored currents of the sea : reconstruction North Carolina, mutuality, and the political roots of Jim Crow, 1872-1875 / Paul Yandle -- The immortal Vance : the political commemoration of North Carolina's war governor / Steven E. …”
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Gender and power relations in Nigeria

Table of Contents: “…Oladoyin -- African women and the changing notion of security / Funso Adesola -- "Unknown soldier" : women's radicalism and activism and state violence in 20th century Nigeria / Moj�ub�aol�u Ol�uf�unk�e Okome -- Women, grass roots movements and democratization in Nigeria / Iwebunor Okwechime and Akin Iwilade -- Gender and the Niger Delta crises : the challenge of local feminisms / Mashood Omotosho -- Gender, environment and human rights violations in Nigeria's Niger Delta region / Iwebunor Okwechime and Akin Iwilade.…”
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Aching for beauty footbinding in China / by Wang, Ping, 1957-

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Dreaming global change, doing local feminisms : visions of feminism. global north/global south encounters, conversations and disagreements /

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