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Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 by Smuts, Alice Boardman

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Three movements, one goal -- Save the child and save the nation : the rise of social feminism and social research -- G. Stanley Hall and the child study movement -- Scientific child rearing, organized motherhood, and parent education -- Social welfare reformers and reform-minded scientists -- The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop : government at its best -- From juvenile delinquency research to child guidance -- Better crops, better pigs, better children : the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station -- The children's decade -- Child development research : preventive politics -- Out of step with his times : Arnold Gesell and the Yale Clinic -- The child guidance movement : another approach to preventive politics -- Child guidance becomes child psychiatry -- The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott : uphill all the way -- Epilogue: What happened to the early movements? …”
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Sucking salt Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / by Gadsby, Meredith

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Vocations of political theory

Table of Contents: “…Political theory for losers / Thomas L. Dumm -- Feminism's flight from the ordinary / Linda M. B. Zerilli -- pt. 5. …”
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J.S. Mill's political thought a bicentennial reassessment /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Nadia Urbinati and Alex Zakaras -- Mill on liberty and on the contagious diseases acts / Jeremy Waldron -- Rational freedom in John Stuart Mill's feminism / Maria Morales -- The many heads of the hydra : J.S. …”
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Science in the service of children, 1893-1935 by Smuts, Alice Boardman

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Three movements, one goal -- Save the child and save the nation : the rise of social feminism and social research -- G. Stanley Hall and the child study movement -- Scientific child rearing, organized motherhood, and parent education -- Social welfare reformers and reform-minded scientists -- The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop : government at its best -- From juvenile delinquency research to child guidance -- Better crops, better pigs, better children : the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station -- The children's decade -- Child development research : preventive politics -- Out of step with his times : Arnold Gesell and the Yale Clinic -- The child guidance movement : another approach to preventive politics -- Child guidance becomes child psychiatry -- The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott : uphill all the way -- Epilogue: What happened to the early movements? …”
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The Rey Chow reader by Chow, Rey

Table of Contents: “…The age of the world target: atomic bombs, alterity, area studies -- The postcolonial difference: lessons in cultural legitimation -- From Writing diaspora: introduction: leading questions -- Brushes with the-other-as-face: stereotyping and cross-ethnic representation -- The politics of admittance: female sexual agency, miscegenation, and the formation of community in Frantz Fanon -- When whiteness feminizes : some consequences of a supplementary logic -- Filmic visuality and transcultural politics. …”
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The Rey Chow reader by Chow, Rey

Table of Contents: “…The age of the world target: atomic bombs, alterity, area studies -- The postcolonial difference: lessons in cultural legitimation -- From Writing diaspora: introduction: leading questions -- Brushes with the-other-as-face: stereotyping and cross-ethnic representation -- The politics of admittance: female sexual agency, miscegenation, and the formation of community in Frantz Fanon -- When whiteness feminizes : some consequences of a supplementary logic -- Filmic visuality and transcultural politics. …”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Praeger guide to the psychology of gender

Table of Contents: “…Gaeddert -- Gender and health / Nancy Felipe Russo -- Development of sex and gender : biochemistry, physiology, and experience / Ethel Tobach -- Feminism and psychology / Joan C. Chrisler and Christine A. …”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Praeger guide to the psychology of gender

Table of Contents: “…Gaeddert -- Gender and health / Nancy Felipe Russo -- Development of sex and gender : biochemistry, physiology, and experience / Ethel Tobach -- Feminism and psychology / Joan C. Chrisler and Christine A. …”
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Dalit Studies /

Table of Contents: “…Satyanarayana -- Questions of representation in Dalit critical discourse: Premchand and Dalit feminism / Laura Brueck -- Social justice and the question of categorization of scheduled caste reservations: the Dandora debate in Andhra Pradesh / Sambaiah Gundimeda -- Caste and class among the Dalits / Shyam Babu -- From Zaat to Qaum: fluid contours of the Ravi Dasi identity in Punjab / Surinder S. …”
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Dalit Studies /

Table of Contents: “…Satyanarayana -- Questions of representation in Dalit critical discourse: Premchand and Dalit feminism / Laura Brueck -- Social justice and the question of categorization of scheduled caste reservations: the Dandora debate in Andhra Pradesh / Sambaiah Gundimeda -- Caste and class among the Dalits / Shyam Babu -- From Zaat to Qaum: fluid contours of the Ravi Dasi identity in Punjab / Surinder S. …”
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Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.…”
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Historicizing Fat in Anglo-american Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- "As Horace fat" in a thin land : Ben Jonson's experience and strategy / Anne Brumley -- American excess : cultural representations of Lillian Russell in turn-of-the-century America / Cookie Woolner -- Greedy bastards : fat kids, class war, and the ideology of classlessness / Alex Evans -- Resisting fatphobia in the critical tradition of Venus and Adonis / Elena Levy-Navarro -- "It's not over till the fat lady sings" : the weight of the opera diva / Serena Guarracino -- Fat's no four-letter word : fat feminism and identity politics in the 1970s and 1980s / Greta Rensenbrink.…”
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The evolution of international security studies by Buzan, Barry

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Between you and I dialogical phenomenology / by Stawarska, Beata

Table of Contents: “…Classical phenomenology -- The transcendental tradition -- The logical investigations of the I -- From the I to the ego -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Strawson on the primacy of personhood -- Wittgenstein on the lure of words -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Zahavi on transcendental subjectivity as intersubjectivity -- Contemporary arguments for the transcendental ego : Marbach, Soffer -- Schutz, Theunissen on social phenomenology -- Husserl's later thought -- The multidiscipline of dialogical phenomenology -- Sociolinguistics -- Personal pronouns : reconsidering the traditional view -- Egocentrism and polycentrism -- Person deixis and polycentrism -- Anscombe -- Wittgenstein -- Personal pronouns : reconsidering the traditional view -- I and we : a relational community -- Benveniste and I : you connectedness -- Objectification in the third person -- Castaneda's phenomeno-logic of the I -- Developmental perspectives -- Piaget's legacy -- Recent research on the sociality of children -- Proto-conversations in infancy -- The dialogic model of Jaffe and Feldstein -- From proto-conversation to conversation -- Perspectives from blindness and autism -- Polycentrism and personal pronoun acquisition: loveland and others -- An egocentric model of personal pronoun acquisition : Charney and others -- Philosophical implications and directions for future research -- Philosophy of dialogue -- Rosenstock-Huessy's grammatical method of social research -- Rosenzweig's speech-thinking -- Buber's I and you -- The primordial duality in Buber, Humboldt, Plato -- Buber and his critics -- Rosenstock-Huessy -- Levinas -- Dialogical phenomenology -- The dialogic dimension of meaning and experience -- The practice of phenomenology -- Implications for politics and feminism.…”
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The evolution of international security studies by Buzan, Barry

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Between you and I dialogical phenomenology / by Stawarska, Beata

Table of Contents: “…Classical phenomenology -- The transcendental tradition -- The logical investigations of the I -- From the I to the ego -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Strawson on the primacy of personhood -- Wittgenstein on the lure of words -- The grammar of the transcendental ego -- Zahavi on transcendental subjectivity as intersubjectivity -- Contemporary arguments for the transcendental ego : Marbach, Soffer -- Schutz, Theunissen on social phenomenology -- Husserl's later thought -- The multidiscipline of dialogical phenomenology -- Sociolinguistics -- Personal pronouns : reconsidering the traditional view -- Egocentrism and polycentrism -- Person deixis and polycentrism -- Anscombe -- Wittgenstein -- Personal pronouns : reconsidering the traditional view -- I and we : a relational community -- Benveniste and I : you connectedness -- Objectification in the third person -- Castaneda's phenomeno-logic of the I -- Developmental perspectives -- Piaget's legacy -- Recent research on the sociality of children -- Proto-conversations in infancy -- The dialogic model of Jaffe and Feldstein -- From proto-conversation to conversation -- Perspectives from blindness and autism -- Polycentrism and personal pronoun acquisition: loveland and others -- An egocentric model of personal pronoun acquisition : Charney and others -- Philosophical implications and directions for future research -- Philosophy of dialogue -- Rosenstock-Huessy's grammatical method of social research -- Rosenzweig's speech-thinking -- Buber's I and you -- The primordial duality in Buber, Humboldt, Plato -- Buber and his critics -- Rosenstock-Huessy -- Levinas -- Dialogical phenomenology -- The dialogic dimension of meaning and experience -- The practice of phenomenology -- Implications for politics and feminism.…”
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Visions of culture an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / by Moore, Jerry D.

Table of Contents: “…Evolutionary, Adaptationist, and Materialist Theories -- Leslie White : Evolution Emergent -- Julian Steward : Cultural Ecology and Multilinear Evolution -- Marvin Harris : Cultural Materialism -- Eleanor Burke Leacock : Feminism, Marxism, and History -- Part V. Structures, Symbols, and Meaning -- Claude L�evi-Strauss : Structuralism -- Victor Turner : Symbols, Pilgrims, and Drama -- Clifford Geertz : An Interpretive Anthropology -- Mary Douglas : Symbols and Structures, Pollution and Purity -- Part VI. …”
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