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Gender, nationalism, and war conflict on the movie screen / by Evangelista, Matthew, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Virginia Woolf's purse -- Algeria : a world constructed out of ruins -- Yugoslavia : archetype or anomaly? -- Chechnya : virgins, mothers, and terrorists -- Qu�ebec : oui, no, or femme -- 'To live to see better times' : gender, nationalism, sovereignty, equality -- Sequel : gender and nationalist violence on film.…”
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Shrines and miraculous images religious life in Mexico before the Reforma / by Taylor, William B.

Table of Contents: “…Images and immanence in colonial Mexico -- Two shrines of the Cristo Renovado : religion and peasant politics -- Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe in the seventeenth century : hagiography and beyond -- Places of Our Lady of Guadalupe in eighteenth-century Mexico -- Guadalupe, remedios, and cultural politics of the independence period -- Shrines and marvels in the wake of Mexican independence.…”
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Shrines and miraculous images religious life in Mexico before the Reforma / by Taylor, William B.

Table of Contents: “…Images and immanence in colonial Mexico -- Two shrines of the Cristo Renovado : religion and peasant politics -- Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe in the seventeenth century : hagiography and beyond -- Places of Our Lady of Guadalupe in eighteenth-century Mexico -- Guadalupe, remedios, and cultural politics of the independence period -- Shrines and marvels in the wake of Mexican independence.…”
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The Lavender Vote : Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics / by Hertzog, Mark, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Virgin ground -- From "lavender" people to "lavender" voters -- The sexuality gap : the 1990 national exit polls -- A view from the states -- Can the activists turn out the vote? …”
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The Lavender Vote : Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics / by Hertzog, Mark, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Virgin ground -- From "lavender" people to "lavender" voters -- The sexuality gap : the 1990 national exit polls -- A view from the states -- Can the activists turn out the vote? …”
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The Oldest Vocation : Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West / by Atkinson, Clarissa W.

Table of Contents: “…-- Physiological motherhood: The wandering womb -- Spiritual motherhood: Extraordinary women in the early Middle Ages -- Theological motherhood: The Virgin Mother of God -- "Mother of love, mother of tears": Holiness and families in the later Middle Ages -- Motherhood reformed: The parson's wife and her children -- The construction of motherhood.…”
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The Oldest Vocation : Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West / by Atkinson, Clarissa W.

Table of Contents: “…-- Physiological motherhood: The wandering womb -- Spiritual motherhood: Extraordinary women in the early Middle Ages -- Theological motherhood: The Virgin Mother of God -- "Mother of love, mother of tears": Holiness and families in the later Middle Ages -- Motherhood reformed: The parson's wife and her children -- The construction of motherhood.…”
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Faithful renderings Jewish-Christian difference and the politics of translation / by Seidman, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…The translator as double agent -- Immaculate translation : sexual fidelity, textual transmission, and the virgin birth -- "The beauty of Greece in the tents of Shem" : Aquila between the camps -- False friends : conversion and translation from Jerome to Luther -- A translator culture -- The Holocaust in every tongue -- Translation and assimilation : Singer in America -- Endecktes Judenthum? …”
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Faithful renderings Jewish-Christian difference and the politics of translation / by Seidman, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…The translator as double agent -- Immaculate translation : sexual fidelity, textual transmission, and the virgin birth -- "The beauty of Greece in the tents of Shem" : Aquila between the camps -- False friends : conversion and translation from Jerome to Luther -- A translator culture -- The Holocaust in every tongue -- Translation and assimilation : Singer in America -- Endecktes Judenthum? …”
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Cinemachismo masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film / by Mora, Sergio de la

Table of Contents: “…"Midnight virgin": melodramas of prostitution in literature and film -- Pedro Infante unveiled: masculinities in the Mexican "buddy movie" -- The last dance: (homo)sexuality and representation in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and the fichera subgenre -- Mexico's third-wave new cinema and the cultural politics of film -- Epilogue. …”
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Cinemachismo masculinities and sexuality in Mexican film / by Mora, Sergio de la

Table of Contents: “…"Midnight virgin": melodramas of prostitution in literature and film -- Pedro Infante unveiled: masculinities in the Mexican "buddy movie" -- The last dance: (homo)sexuality and representation in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites and the fichera subgenre -- Mexico's third-wave new cinema and the cultural politics of film -- Epilogue. …”
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The candidate what it takes to win-- and hold-- the White House / by Popkin, Samuel L.

Table of Contents: “…Campaign juggling -- Planning for chaos -- Challengers: Senator Clinton in 2008 -- Challenger case study: the search for the experienced virgin -- Incumbents: regicide or more of the same -- Incumbent case study: President Bush in 1992 -- Seven successor lapdogs or leaders -- Successor case study: Vice-President Al Gore in 2000 -- Teams that work -- Conclusion: is this any way to pick a president?.…”
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The candidate what it takes to win-- and hold-- the White House / by Popkin, Samuel L.

Table of Contents: “…Campaign juggling -- Planning for chaos -- Challengers: Senator Clinton in 2008 -- Challenger case study: the search for the experienced virgin -- Incumbents: regicide or more of the same -- Incumbent case study: President Bush in 1992 -- Seven successor lapdogs or leaders -- Successor case study: Vice-President Al Gore in 2000 -- Teams that work -- Conclusion: is this any way to pick a president?.…”
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Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / by Hunt, Hannah

Table of Contents: “…Hellenistic insights into the human person -- Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul -- Desert teachings on the body and asceticism -- "Virgins of God": manly women and transvestite saints -- "Enemy" or "friend": Climacus's integration of the body -- The Syrian perspective on asceticism -- Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity -- Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia -- "Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation -- Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs -- Orthodox patristic formulations.…”
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Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / by Hunt, Hannah

Table of Contents: “…Hellenistic insights into the human person -- Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul -- Desert teachings on the body and asceticism -- "Virgins of God": manly women and transvestite saints -- "Enemy" or "friend": Climacus's integration of the body -- The Syrian perspective on asceticism -- Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity -- Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia -- "Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation -- Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs -- Orthodox patristic formulations.…”
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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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Portrait of a Young Painter : Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation / by Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Lupe's voice -- Enchanting city/magical radio -- Pepe at school and with God, the Virgin, and the saints -- My father, my teacher -- The Zúñiga family as a radionovela -- "How difficult is adolescence!" …”
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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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Portrait of a Young Painter : Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation / by Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Lupe's voice -- Enchanting city/magical radio -- Pepe at school and with God, the Virgin, and the saints -- My father, my teacher -- The Zúñiga family as a radionovela -- "How difficult is adolescence!" …”
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Governing spirits religion, miracles, and spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956 / by Román, Reinaldo L., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Governing man-gods in Cuba : Hilario Mustelier and Juan Manso -- Governing saints in Puerto Rico : Elenita and the Hermanos Cheos -- Governing witchcraft : journalists and brujos in Republican Cuba -- Self-governing spirits : la Samaritana and Puerto Rico's espiriteros -- Managing miracles in Batista's Cuba : la estigmatizada and clavelito -- Managing miracles in the Commonwealth : the virgin visits Sabana Grande -- Epilogue: The Chupacabras : discourses and social action.…”
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