Search Results - "Woman"

Lourdes Portillo The devil never sleeps and other films /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. The woman behind the camera -- pt. 2. Critical perspectives -- pt. 3. …”
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Americanah : a novel / by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / by Railton, Ben, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before" : dialect slavery, and the race question -- "If we had known how to write, we would have put all these things down and they would not have been forgotten" : silenced voices, forgotten, histories, and the Indian question -- "That's the worst of being a woman. What you go through can't be told" : Private histories, public voices, and the woman question -- "Quite the southern version" : the lure of alternative voices and histories of the southern question -- "The way they talked in New Orleans in those days" : voice and history in and on the grandissimes.…”
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In quest of Tolstoy by McLean, Hugh, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…further comment on "God sees the truth, but waits" / with Gary R. Jahn -- A woman's place -- The young Tolstoy and the woman question -- Tolstoy and Jesus -- Rousseau's god and Tolstoy's god -- Claws on the behind: Tolstoy and Darwin -- A clash of utopias: Tolstoy and Gorky -- Hemingway and Tolstoy: a pugilistic encounter -- Foxes into hedgehogs: Berlin and Tolstoy.…”
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Lillian Carter : a compassionate life / by Hayter-Menzies, Grant, 1964-

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We are poor but so many the story of self-employed women in India / by Bhatt, Ela R.

Table of Contents: “…On being poor, woman and self-employed -- On ragpicking -- On chindi stitchers -- On vending -- On banking -- On health -- On embroidery -- On gram haat -- On sukhi -- On reforms.…”
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Manichaeism and its legacy by Coyle, John Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Manichaean themes -- pt. 3. Woman in Manichaeism -- pt. 4. Manichaeism and Augustine of Hippo.…”
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The sword and the pen women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / by Eisenbichler, Konrad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. …”
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Women in print essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /

Table of Contents: “…Cloonan -- Women and intellectual resources : interpreting print culture at the Library of Congress / Jane Aikin -- A "bouncing babe," a "little bastard" : women, print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 / Christine Pawley -- Power through print : Lois Waisbrooker and grassroots feminism / Joanne E. Passet -- Woman's work for woman : gendered print culture in American mission movement narratives / Sarah Robbins -- "When women condemn the whole race" : Belle Case La Follette's women's column attacks the color line / Nancy C. …”
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Women in Print Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries /

Table of Contents: “…Cloonan -- Women and intellectual resources : interpreting print culture at the Library of Congress / Jane Aikin -- A "bouncing babe," a "little bastard" : women, print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 / Christine Pawley -- Power through print : Lois Waisbrooker and grassroots feminism / Joanne E. Passet -- Woman's work for woman : gendered print culture in American mission movement narratives / Sarah Robbins -- "When women condemn the whole race" : Belle Case La Follette's women's column attacks the color line / Nancy C. …”
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Shanghai gone domicide and defiance in a Chinese megacity / by Shao, Qin, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The Woman of a Thousand-and-one Petition -- Nightmares : Old and New -- Waving the Red Flag -- Barrack-room Lawyer -- Mr. …”
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Figures of Southeast Asian modernity

Table of Contents: “…Hajj / Dadi Darmadi -- Rich person / Joshua Barker -- Career woman / Carla Jones --…”
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Manliness by Mansfield, Harvey Claflin, 1932-

Table of Contents: “…The gender-neutral society -- Manliness as stereotype -- Manly assertion -- Manly nihilism -- Womanly nihilism -- The manly liberal -- Manly virtue -- Conclusion: Unemployed manliness.…”
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Michelangelo red Antonioni blue eight reflections on cinema / by Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beyond the clouds -- Identification of a woman -- The Red Desert -- The dangerous thread of things -- The mystery of Oberwald -- Zabriskie Point -- The passenger -- Blow-up.…”
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Refiguring women, colonialism, and modernity in Burma / by Ikeya, Chie

Table of Contents: “…The colonial setting -- Women on the rise -- Between patriotism and feminism -- Modern woman as consumer -- Mixing religion and race -- The self-indulgent khit hsan thu.…”
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The Provocative Joan Robinson : The Making of a Cambridge Economist / by Aslanbeigui, Nahid, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Collage with woman in foreground -- The improbable theoretician -- Excursus: Robinson and Kahn -- The making of the economics of imperfect competition -- Becoming a Keynesian -- Who is Joan Robinson?…”
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Perspectives on cancer care

Table of Contents: “…Fawcett -- Integrating cancer genetics into healthcare / Roseanne Cetnarskyj and Mary Porteous -- "Being with woman" : the care of the childbearing woman with cancer / Rosemary Mander -- Mucositis and the development of a new instrument for the measurement of oral mucositis in children / Deborah Tomlinson and Lillian Sung -- Facing the challenges of primary malignant brain tumours / Shanne McNamara -- Cancer and the surgeon / Ashley Brown -- Cancer pain / Papiya Russell and Anil Tandon -- Cancer-related fatigue / Antonia Dean -- The clinical research nurse in cancer clinical trials / Patricia B Campbell -- Emotional work of caring in cancer nursing / Anne McQueen -- The management of rectal cancer and the consequences of treatment / Gillian Knowles and Rachel Haigh -- Sustaining hope in people with cancer : developments in palliative and end-of-life care / Margaret Colquhoun and Vicky Hill.…”
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Eat My Dust Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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The Made-Up State : Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia / by Hegarty, Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Inhabiting Public Space -- Banci: Before Waria -- Jakarta, 1968 -- The Perfect Woman -- The Beauty Experts -- National Glamor -- Conclusion. …”
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A history of feminist and gender economics / by Becchio, Giandomenica

Table of Contents: “…Introduction Chapter I. Woman question and political economy. I.1 Women economists in Great Britain between classical liberalism and Fabianism I.1.1 The classical liberal tradition during Victorianism I.1.2 The socialist tradition between Fabianism and Guildism I.2 Woman question in Austria and Germany: Jewishness and political economy I.2.1 The classical liberal tradition in Austria and the Austrian school women economists I.2.2 The socialist tradition in Austrian women economists I.2.3 Early feminism and political economy in Germany. …”
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