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Humanizing the sacred : sisters in Islam and the struggle for gender justice in Malaysia / by Basarudin, Azza

Table of Contents: “…Religious authority and contested justice -- Negotiating lives, crafting selves: narratives of belonging -- The local in the transnational: gender justice and feminist solidarities -- Conclusion.…”
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Berlin Coquette : Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 / by Smith, Jill Suzanne, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Berlin's bourgeois whores -- Sex, money, and marriage : prostitution as an instrument of conjugal critique -- Righteous women and lost girls : radical bourgeois feminists and the fight for moral reform -- Naughty Berlin? …”
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The Play in the System : The Art of Parasitical Resistance / by Fisher, Anna Watkins

Table of Contents: “…User be used : leveraging the coercive hospitality of corporate platforms -- An opening in the structure : Núria Güell and Kenneth Pietrobono's legal loopholes -- Hangers-on : Chris Kraus' parasitical feminism -- A seat at the table : feminist art's institutional absorption, millennial precarity, and ambivalent legacies -- Coda. …”
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A Frenchwoman's imperial story Madame Luce in nineteenth-century Algieria / by Rogers, Rebecca, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in provincial France (1804-1832) -- Early years in Algeria (1832-1845) -- A mission to civilize (1845-1850) -- Schooling Muslim girls (1850-1857) -- From book learning to embroidery : reorienting the civilizing mission (1857-1875) -- Imperial narratives : feminists and travelers tell their tales (1857-1900) -- The remains of the day (1875-1915).…”
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Situated testimonies dread and enchantment in an Indonesian literary archive / by Sears, Laurie J. (Laurie Jo)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the afterwardsness of history -- Desire, phantoms, and commodities: Maria Dermoût's colonial critique -- At home and not at home in empire: transnational phantasies of colonial modernity -- A neurotic family romance of modernity and the national form -- The end of the nationalist romance -- Trauma and its doubles in postcolonial masculinity -- Masculinist trauma and feminist melancholia -- Afterword: trauma, translation, and a critical path.…”
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Gender, violence and governmentality : legal and policy initiatives in India / by Sahu, Skylab

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Sex Selective Abortion: A Feminist Interpretation of Legal Dilemmas and Policy Initiatives in India -- Impunity Assured and Impunity Snatched: The State and the Discourse of Rape in India -- Normalisation of Domestic Violence in India -- Sex Work in India: Invisible Labour, Deviant Sexuality and Experience of Violence -- Citizenship and Transgenders: Analysing the Legal and Policy Discourse in India -- State, Law and Resistance.…”
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Reproductive rights and the state getting the birth control, RU-486, morning-after pills, and the Gardasil vaccine to the U.S. market / by Haussman, Melissa, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- History of the FDA and drug regulation in the US -- The development of the pill -- U.S. pro-choice and pro-life groups' strategies since 1960 -- Problems with Mifepristone (RU 486) and Misoprostol (Cytotec), 1988-2000 -- The "Morning after pill," Plan B levonorgestrel formulation -- Reverse lobbying for Gardasil -- Conclusion--why a feminist historical institutionalist lens is important.…”
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Benign bigotry the psychology of subtle prejudice / by Anderson, Kristin J., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the changing place of prejudice : a migration underground -- "Those people all look alike" : the myth of the other -- "They must be guilty of something" : myths of criminalization -- "Feminists are man-haters" : backlash myth-making -- "Gays flaunt their sexuality" : the myth of hypersexuality -- "I'm not a racist, I'm colorblind" : the myth of neutrality -- "Affirmative action is reverse racism" : the myth of merit.…”
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Living the revolution Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / by Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.…”
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Evolutionary rhetoric sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / by Hayden, Wendy, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The Season of Battle: The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- Evolutionary Theory: (R) volutionary Rhetorics in the Free Love Movement -- Physiology: Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire -- Bacteriology: Marriage as a diseased Institution -- Embryology: Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism -- Heredity: The Disappearing Reform Warrant -- Conclusion: Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.…”
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The madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination / by Gilbert, Sandra M.

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Toward a feminist poetics -- pt. II. Inside the house of fiction : Jane Austen's tenants of possibility -- pt. …”
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Narrative psychiatry : how stories can shape clinical practice / by Lewis, Bradley, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Dutta and the literary case -- Mainstream stories I : biopsychiatry, cognitive behavioral therapy, and psychoanalysis -- Mainstream stories II : interpersonal therapy, family therapy, and humanistic therapy -- Alternative stories : spiritual therapy, expressive therapy, and cultural, political, and feminist therapies -- Doing narrative psychiatry -- Critical reflections.…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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Merciful judgments and contemporary society legal problems, legal possibilities /

Table of Contents: “…Commentary on chapter 5: the interpretative process: feminist reconstructions Timothy Hoff.…”
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Hollywood heroines women in film noir and the female gothic film / by Hanson, Helen

Table of Contents: “…At the margins of film noir : genre, range and female representation -- Reviewing the female gothic heroine : agency, identification and feminist film criticism -- Narrative journeys of the female gothic heroine -- Men in the woman's film : the gothic male, representation and female discourse -- Professional investigators and femmes fatales in neo-noir -- Reworking the woman's film : the neo-gothic heroine in contemporary cinema -- The currency of Hollywood heroines.…”
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Crossover stars in the Hindi film industry : globalizing Pakistani identity / by Khdair, Dina

Table of Contents: “…A historical legacy -- Globalization, new political economies, and cultural change -- Aspirational affects and boundary crossing : Ali Zafar, the Pakistani 'Prince of Pop' -- A crossover romance : female fandom and Fawad Khan, Pakistan's 'reel' gentleman -- I am not your feminist : Mahira Khan and the re-scripting of Pakistani womanhood, Islam and globalization -- A fragile union : moving forward, facing backward.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied faces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Rethinking culture, organization and management /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5 Luce Irigaray's philosophy of the feminine: exploring a culture of sexual difference in the study of organizations -- The question of difference in feminist politics: Cultivating a culture of difference -- Irigaray, psychoanalysis and studies of work and organization -- Strategic essentialism -- Irigaray's style -- Implications for understanding gendered relations in organizations -- Notes -- Recommended reading -- References -- Chapter 6 Situating knowledges through feminist objectivity in organization studies: Donna Haraway and the Partial Perspective…”
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