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Masculinities, childhood, violence attending to early modern women--and men : proceedings of the 2006 symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Leonard ; All you need is love : music, romance, and adolescent recreation in sixteenth-century France ; The virgin's body and early modern surgeons / Valeria Finucci -- pt. 3. …”
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The founders on religion a book of quotations /

Table of Contents: “…Addiction -- Afterlife -- Age -- America -- American Revolution -- Animals -- Atheism -- Bible : value of -- Bible : accuracy of the text -- Bible : exegesis of -- Bible : Old Testament -- Bible : revision of -- Calvinism -- Catholicism -- Catholicism : Jesuits -- Chaplains -- Children -- Christianity -- Christianity : Christian nation -- Church and state -- Clergy -- Communion -- Conscience : see liberty of conscience -- Consolation -- Constitution of the United States -- Creeds -- Crime and punishment -- Death -- Deism -- Divorce -- Ecumenicism -- Education -- Episcopalians -- Faith -- Fast and Thanksgiving days -- God -- Grief -- Hell -- Indians : see Native Americans -- Islam -- Jesus -- Jews -- Laws -- Liberty of conscience -- Marriage -- Millennium -- Miracles -- Missionary and Bible societies -- Morality -- Native Americans -- New England -- Oaths -- Patriotism -- Paul, the apostle -- Persecution -- Plato -- The poor -- Prayer -- Presbyterians -- Proclamations : see fast and Thanksgiving days -- Profanity -- Prophecy -- Providence -- Quakers -- Reason -- Religion, freedom of : see liberty of conscience -- Religion : propensity of humans for -- Religion : social utility of -- Republicanism -- Rights -- Sabbath -- Sin -- Slavery -- Trinity -- Unitarianism -- Universalism -- Virgin Mary -- War -- Women.…”
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Masculinities, childhood, violence attending to early modern women--and men : proceedings of the 2006 symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Leonard ; All you need is love : music, romance, and adolescent recreation in sixteenth-century France ; The virgin's body and early modern surgeons / Valeria Finucci -- pt. 3. …”
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Caciques and Cemí idols the web spun by Taíno rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / by Oliver, José R.

Table of Contents: “…-- Webs of interaction : human beings, other beings, and many things -- Personhood and the animistic Amerindian perspective -- Contrasting animistic and naturalistic worldviews -- The Cemí reveals its personhood and its body form -- Cemí idols and Taínoan idolatry -- Cemís and personal identities -- The power and potency of the Cemís -- The display of Cemís : personal vs. communal ownership, private vs. public function -- Face-to-face interactions : Cemís, idols, and the native political elite -- Hanging on to and losing the power of the Cemí idols -- The inheritance and reciprocal exchange of Cemí icons -- Cemís : alienable or inalienable; to give and to keep -- Stone collars, elbow stones, and caciques -- Ancestor Cemís and the Cemíification of the caciques -- The guaíza face masks : gifts of the living for the living -- The circulation of chief's names, women, and Cemís : between the greater and lesser Antilles -- Up in arms : Taíno freedom fighters in Higüey and Boriquén -- The virgin Mary icons and native Cemís : two cases of religious syncretism in Cuba -- Religious syncretism and transculturation : the crossroads toward new identities -- Final remarks.…”
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Climate dependence and food problems in Russia, 1900-1990 the interaction of climate and agricultural policy and their effect on food problems / by Dronin, N. M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: climate and agriculture in Russia -- The availability and reliability of statistical agricultural data for Russia -- The pre-revolutionary period (before 1916) -- The post-revolutionary decade (1917-1928) -- The Stalin era (1929-1953) -- The post-Stalin period (after 1953) -- Summary -- The pre-revolutionary period (1900-1916) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-revolutionary period (1917-1928) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The collectivization of Soviet agriculture (1929-1940) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-war recovery period (1945-1954) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The virgin lands campaign (1955-1964) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural intensification (1965-1975) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural stagnation (1976-1990) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary.…”
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Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet -- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall -- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. …”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Climate dependence and food problems in Russia, 1900-1990 the interaction of climate and agricultural policy and their effect on food problems / by Dronin, N. M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: climate and agriculture in Russia -- The availability and reliability of statistical agricultural data for Russia -- The pre-revolutionary period (before 1916) -- The post-revolutionary decade (1917-1928) -- The Stalin era (1929-1953) -- The post-Stalin period (after 1953) -- Summary -- The pre-revolutionary period (1900-1916) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-revolutionary period (1917-1928) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The collectivization of Soviet agriculture (1929-1940) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The post-war recovery period (1945-1954) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The virgin lands campaign (1955-1964) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural intensification (1965-1975) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary -- The period of agricultural stagnation (1976-1990) -- Major developments in agriculture -- Weather variations and agricultural production -- Food problems -- Summary.…”
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Engaging the spirit world popular beliefs and practices in modern southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…: rethinking the four palaces' spirit representations in the context of social and political changes in northern Vietnam / Claire Chauvet -- Gods, gifts, markets, and superstition : spirited consumption from Korea to Vietnam / Laurel Kendall -- Contests of commemoration : virgin war martyrs, state memorials, and the invocation of the spirit world in contemporary Vietnam / Kirsten W. …”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Tudor : passion, manipulation, murder : the story of England's most notorious royal family / by De Lisle, Leanda

Table of Contents: “…Nine days ; Revolt ; Marriage and sons ; A flickering light ; A married man ; Dangerous cousins ; Royal prisoners ; Murder in the family ; Exit Margaret Douglas ; The virgin queen ; The daughter of debate ; The Armada ; Setting sun ; The hollow crown -- Appendices. …”
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Tudor : passion, manipulation, murder : the story of England's most notorious royal family / by De Lisle, Leanda

Table of Contents: “…Nine days ; Revolt ; Marriage and sons ; A flickering light ; A married man ; Dangerous cousins ; Royal prisoners ; Murder in the family ; Exit Margaret Douglas ; The virgin queen ; The daughter of debate ; The Armada ; Setting sun ; The hollow crown -- Appendices. …”
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Queens & power in medieval and early modern England

Table of Contents: “…Elston -- "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan -- Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin -- Marriage à la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins -- Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. Shenk -- The virgin and the widow : the political finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici / Elaine Kruse -- Crafting queens : early modern readings of Esther / Michele Osherow -- "Shine like an angel with thy starry crown" : Queen Elizabeth the angelic / Anna Riehl -- Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra : an act of translation / Richardine Woodall -- "She is the man, and raignes" : popular representations of Henrietta Maria during the English civil wars / Michelle A. …”
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Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500 /

Table of Contents: “…Bejczy -- Political prudence in some medieval commentaries on the sixth book of the Nicomachean ethics / Roberto Lambertini -- The virtue of virginity : the Aristotelian challenge / Pavel Blažek -- The fifteenth century -- Teaching ethics at the University of Vienna : the making of a commentary at the Faculty of Arts (a case study) / Christoph Flüeler.…”
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Queens & power in medieval and early modern England

Table of Contents: “…Elston -- "Most godly heart fraight with al mercie" : queens' mercy during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I / Sarah Duncan -- Princess Elizabeth travels across her kingdom : in life, in text, and on stage / Carole Levin -- Marriage à la mode, 1559 : Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the changing practice of dynastic marriage / John Watkins -- Queen Solomon : an international Elizabeth I in 1569 / Linda S. Shenk -- The virgin and the widow : the political finesse of Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici / Elaine Kruse -- Crafting queens : early modern readings of Esther / Michele Osherow -- "Shine like an angel with thy starry crown" : Queen Elizabeth the angelic / Anna Riehl -- Shakespeare's Queen Cleopatra : an act of translation / Richardine Woodall -- "She is the man, and raignes" : popular representations of Henrietta Maria during the English civil wars / Michelle A. …”
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Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500 /

Table of Contents: “…Bejczy -- Political prudence in some medieval commentaries on the sixth book of the Nicomachean ethics / Roberto Lambertini -- The virtue of virginity : the Aristotelian challenge / Pavel Blažek -- The fifteenth century -- Teaching ethics at the University of Vienna : the making of a commentary at the Faculty of Arts (a case study) / Christoph Flüeler.…”
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The chronicles of Panchita Villa and other guerrilleras essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism / by Rebolledo, Tey Diana, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…: Chicana feminism through literature (1997) -- Jugando a la vida con poemas : contemporary Chicana poetry in Spanish (1998) -- Mi vida loca : symbolic spaces in the construction of identity in Chicana literature (1998) -- The chicana bandera : Sandra Cisneros in the public press : constructing a cultural icon (1996-1999) -- The tools in the toolbox : representing work in Chicana literature (1999) -- La nueva onda = The new wave : contemporary Chicana writing (2001) -- Size 48D bras and men who wear skirts : the dialectics of humor in Denise Chávez's narratives (2001) -- The archbishop sees the body of the virgin : art, religion, ideology, and popular culture (2001) -- Game theory : a typology of feminist players in Latina/Chicana writing (1985) -- Art and spiritual politics : Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente, a feminist literary perspective (1995) -- Inheriting the alphabet : homeland and exile in Marjorie Agosín (1997) -- Questioning Nepantla : the land in between, geopolitical tyrannies and other border complexities (2002).…”
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The chronicles of Panchita Villa and other guerrilleras essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism / by Rebolledo, Tey Diana, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…: Chicana feminism through literature (1997) -- Jugando a la vida con poemas : contemporary Chicana poetry in Spanish (1998) -- Mi vida loca : symbolic spaces in the construction of identity in Chicana literature (1998) -- The chicana bandera : Sandra Cisneros in the public press : constructing a cultural icon (1996-1999) -- The tools in the toolbox : representing work in Chicana literature (1999) -- La nueva onda = The new wave : contemporary Chicana writing (2001) -- Size 48D bras and men who wear skirts : the dialectics of humor in Denise Chávez's narratives (2001) -- The archbishop sees the body of the virgin : art, religion, ideology, and popular culture (2001) -- Game theory : a typology of feminist players in Latina/Chicana writing (1985) -- Art and spiritual politics : Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente, a feminist literary perspective (1995) -- Inheriting the alphabet : homeland and exile in Marjorie Agosín (1997) -- Questioning Nepantla : the land in between, geopolitical tyrannies and other border complexities (2002).…”
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Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Shamita Das Dasgupta -- Understanding South Asian immigrant women's experiences of violence / Anitha Venkatramani-Kothari -- The many faces of domestic violence in the South Asian American Muslim community / Ruksana Ayyub -- Minority within a minority : reflecting on marital violence in the Nepali American community / Bidya Ranjeet and Bandana Purkayastha -- "Virginity is everything" : sexuality in the context of intimate partner violence in the South Asian community / Sandeep Hunjan and Shelagh Towson -- The aftermath of September 11 : an anti-domestic violence perspective / Maunica Sthanki -- Mental and emotional wounds of domestic violence in South Asian women / Diya Kallivayalil -- Fragmented self : violence and body image among South Asian American women / V.G. …”
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Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Shamita Das Dasgupta -- Understanding South Asian immigrant women's experiences of violence / Anitha Venkatramani-Kothari -- The many faces of domestic violence in the South Asian American Muslim community / Ruksana Ayyub -- Minority within a minority : reflecting on marital violence in the Nepali American community / Bidya Ranjeet and Bandana Purkayastha -- "Virginity is everything" : sexuality in the context of intimate partner violence in the South Asian community / Sandeep Hunjan and Shelagh Towson -- The aftermath of September 11 : an anti-domestic violence perspective / Maunica Sthanki -- Mental and emotional wounds of domestic violence in South Asian women / Diya Kallivayalil -- Fragmented self : violence and body image among South Asian American women / V.G. …”
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