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Womanhood in Anglophone literary culture nineteenth and twentieth century perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Womb fiction: late twentieth century challenges to the woman as womb paradigm /…”
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Women, gender, and language in Morocco by Sadiqi, Fatima

“…Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world,…”
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One foot in Heaven narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / by Willemse, Karin, 1962-

“…Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world,…”
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Culture, religion, and the reintegration of female child soldiers in northern Uganda

Table of Contents: “…Women and the war in Northern Uganda : a theological reflection on the dignity of a woman in the reintegration process /…”
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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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Dead women talking figures of injustice in American literature / by Norman, Brian, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" -- Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw -- Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens -- Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead -- Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God -- Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones -- Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body -- When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".…”
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Women healing/healing women the genderization of healing in early Christianity / by Wainwright, Elaine Mary, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…(Luke 4:38-39) -- A woman bent over (Luke 13:10-17) -- Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42) -- Women healing : a remainder.…”
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Sex and character an investigation of fundamental principles / by Weininger, Otto, 1880-1903

Table of Contents: “…"Men" and "women" -- Arrhenoplasm and thelyplasm -- Laws of sexual attraction -- Homosexuality and pederasty -- Characterology and morphology -- Emancipated women -- Man and woman -- Male and female sexuality -- Male and female consciousness -- Endowment and genius -- Endowment and memory -- Memory, logic, ethics -- Logic, ethics, and the self -- The problem of the self and genius -- Male and female psychology -- Motherhood and prostitution -- Eroticism and aesthetics -- The nature of woman and her purpose in the universe -- Judaism -- Woman and humanity.…”
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Bleak houses marital violence in Victorian fiction / by Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Private violence in the public eye: the early writings of Charles Dickens -- Domestic violence and middle-class manliness: Dombey and Son -- From regency violence to Victorian feminism: The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- The abused woman and the community: "Janet's repentance" -- Strange revelations: the divorce court, the newspaper, and The woman in white -- The private eye and the public gaze: He knew he was right -- Marital violence and the new woman: The wing of Azrael -- "Are women protected?" …”
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Female entrepreneurs : the secrets of their success / by Smythe, John, 1951-, Saunders, Ruth (Marketing consultant)

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Isaiah speaks / by Schilling, S.Paul

Women psychotherapists journeys in healing /

Table of Contents: “…The birthing of a womanist psychologist : on becoming a guide to healing and empowerment / Thema Bryant-Davis -- Hannah Krants : conversion / Janice Crawford -- (As) if i had a choice / Beverly Fauman -- Psychologist by accident, profession by choice : my journey of compassion and service / Patricia Pitta -- Slave and midwife : healing in the midst of social injustice / Beverly Greene -- The woman psychotherapist : a spiritual perspective / Marcella Bakur Weiner -- Transcultural woman : healing in a strange land / Lillian Comas-D�az -- The delicate art of connection and healing / Cinzia Levalds -- Becoming a psychotherapist : discovering the self amidst cultural shifts / Pratyusha Tummala-Narra -- Unbroken chain / Carla Bradshaw -- Adversity, healing, and the development and practice of a woman psychologist / Jennifer Ruff.…”
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker a reader in documents and essays /

Table of Contents: “…Gordon -- "Lower orders," racial hierarchies, and rights rhetoric: evolutionary echoes in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's thought during the late 1860s / Michele Mitchell -- A selection of speeches, articles, and essays by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1854-1901 -- "Address to the legislature of New York, Albany, February 14, 1854" -- "Address to the legislature on women's right of suffrage, Albany, February 18, 1860" -- "Address to tenth national women's rights convention on marriage and divorce, New York City, May 11, 1860" -- "Address to anniversary of American equal rights association, May 12, 1869, New York City" -- "Subjection of women" (1875) -- "National protection for national citizens, address to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, January 11, 1878, Washington, D.C." -- "The other side of the woman question" (1879) -- "Has Christianity benefited woman" (1885) -- "Divorce versus domestic warfare" (1890) -- "The matriarchate: or mother-age" (1891) -- "Worship of God in man" (1893) -- Selections from the woman's bible (1895, 1898) -- "Our proper attitude toward immigration" (1895) -- "Significance and history of the ballot" (1898) -- "Progress of the American woman" (1900) -- "The degradation of disfranchisement" (1901) -- About the contributors.…”
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Emblems of eloquence opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / by Heller, Wendy Beth

Table of Contents: “…The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.…”
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My Lord, what a morning : an autobiography. by Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

In science's shadow literary constructions of late Victorian women / by Murphy, Patricia, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the gendered context of Victorian science -- Fated marginalization : women and science in the poetry of Constance Naden -- A problematic boundary : masculinizing science in Thomas Hardy's Two on a tower -- Dangerous behavior : a woman's menacing avocation in Wilkie Collins's Heart and science -- "Escaping" gender : the neutral voice in Marianne North's Recollections of a happy life -- Evolutionary mediation : the female physician in Charles Reade's A woman-hater.…”
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Medical microbiology for the new curriculum a case-based approach / by Carey, Roberta B.

Table of Contents: “…Case one : boy with acute pharyngitis -- Case two : student with dysuria -- Case three : boy with vomiting and diarrhea after a school picnic -- Case four : chronic diarrhea in a traveler -- Case five : boy with skin lesions -- Case six : student with a skin lesion following a trip to India -- Case seven : man with a surgical wound after a prosthetic hip placement -- Case eight : boy with fever and right leg pain following a canoe accident -- Case nine : woman with acute abdominal pain and cervical discharge -- Case ten : woman with acute fever and productive cough -- Case eleven : nursing home resident with fever, cough, and myalgias -- Case twelve : baby with fever, rhinitis and bronchiolitis -- Case thirteen : woman with fever, cough, and weight loss -- Case fourteen : student with chronic fever, dry cough and pneumonia -- Case fifteen : bone marrow transplant recipient with nodular pneumonia -- Case sixteen : boy with acute fever, headache, and confusion -- Case seventeen : woman with lymphocytic meningitis -- Case eighteen : neonate with fever and vesicular rash -- Case nineteen : renal transplant recipient with chronic meningitis -- Case twenty : man with acute fever and periumbilical pain -- Case twenty one : man with two weeks of fever and a systolic murmur -- Case twenty two : young man with fatigue and an abnormal liver test -- Case twenty three : fever of unknown origin in a traveler -- Case twenty four : student with fever, lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly.…”
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Medical women and Victorian fiction by Swenson, Kristine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.…”
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Chanteuse in the city the realist singer in French film / by Conway, Kelley, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Caf-conc' : the rise of the unruly woman -- Music hall Miss -- Voices from the past -- The revue star and the realist singer : the return of the unruly woman -- Violent spectatorship : mechanical reproduction, the female voice, and the imaginary of intimacy -- Conclusion.…”
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Women and authority in early modern Spain the peasants of Galicia / by Poska, Allyson M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: gendering peasant society -- Women without men -- Single women and property -- Sex and the single woman -- 'A married man is a woman': gender tensions in Galician marriages -- Widowhood -- Modelling female authority -- Beyond finisterre.…”
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