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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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Christianity a very short introduction / by Woodhead, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Jesus : the God-man -- The signs and symbols of Christianity -- Church and biblical Christianity -- Mystical Christianity -- Modern Christianity : the West -- Christianity beyond the West -- A woman's religion?…”
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Reforming the world social activism and the problem of fiction in nineteenth-century America / by Sánchez, María Carla, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The devil and his angels -- The panic of 1837 and the failures of literary men -- Sentimentalizing the fallen woman -- Making history with Child and Stowe -- Saying goodbye to Timothy Shay Arthur.…”
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Racing romance love, power, and desire among Asian American/white couples / by Nemoto, Kumiko, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Interracial relationships : discourses and images -- The good wife -- A woman ascending -- A man's place -- Playing the man -- Men alone -- Conclusion: Matters of race and gender.…”
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Sexualities in Victorian Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Tucker -- Turn-of-the-century male impersonation : rewriting the romance plot / Martha Vicinus -- "I am the woman for spirit" : a working woman's gender transgression in Victorian London / Camilla Townsend.…”
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The house of secrets the hidden world of the mikveh / by Polak-Sahm, Varda

Table of Contents: “…The place -- The balaniyot -- A dose of impurity -- Blood and banishment -- Purity and sexuality -- Female rituals, sisterhood, and female authority -- Between a woman and God -- Between man and wife.…”
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The female and the species the animal in Irish women's writing / by O'Connor, Maureen, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…"Vile bodies" -- Frances Power Cobbe, political animal -- The evolutionary new woman -- Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds in the fiction of Somerville and Ross -- Contemporary representations of sacrificial logic.…”
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When Broadway was the runway theater, fashion, and American culture / by Schweitzer, Marlis

Table of Contents: “…The octopus and the matinee girl -- The "department store theater" and the gendering of consumption -- "The cult of clothes" and the performance of class -- Fashioning the modern woman -- The theatrical fashion show on Broadway and Sixth Avenue.…”
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Women and language essays on gendered communication across media /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women and oral culture -- Spoken spaces : the historicization, evolution, and gendering of "gossip" -- Pandora's voice-box : how woman became the "gossip girl" / Giselle Bastin -- Just like a woman : misogynistic gossip in the correspondence between John Chamberlain and Sir Dudley Carleton / Emily Ross -- "Paper cannot blush" : Martha Fowke, an 18th-century abandoned woman / Earla Wilputte -- Literary spaces : the convergence of orality and print in women's writing -- Delete as appropriate : writing between the lines of female orality in the wife's lament / Miriam Muth -- Voicing the feminine and the (absent) masculine in the concealed fancies / Lindsay Yakimyshyn -- The wartime diaries of Dang Thuy Tram : extolling and gendering the heroine's voice in postwar Vietnam and beyond / Hanh N. …”
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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Expert testimony on domestic violence a discourse analysis / by Hamilton, Melissa, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Feminist and social constructivist theories -- Critical discourse analysis in the law -- Expert witness discourse : the legal framework -- Expert witness discourse : constructing the battered woman -- The discourses of resistance.…”
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We have raised all of you : motherhood in the South, 1750-1835 / by Smith, Katy Simpson, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…part I. They sprung from a woman : Indian mothers -- part II. Sowing good seeds : white mothers -- part III. …”
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / by May, Gita

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AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION : overwriting the dictator. by Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…: Trujillo in the Twenty-first Century Imagination -- 2 Dueña y Señora de Su Canto: Autobiographical Depictions of the New Nicaraguan Woman -- Poetic Interiorismo and "The Six": Why This is Not Testimonio -- Milk Poems and Blood Poems: Womanhood, Embodiment, and the New Nicaraguan Woman -- The Mirror Poems: Refractory and Reciprocal Recognition…”
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Gender, science and technology perspectives from Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Science and technology : the case of one woman, many women.…”
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Wives, mothers, and the Red Menace : conservative women and the crusade against communism / by Brennan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.…”
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Passionately human, no less divine : religion and culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 / by Best, Wallace D. (Wallace Denino)

Table of Contents: “…. -- The Chicago African Methodist Episcopal Church in crisis. -- A woman's work, an urban world.…”
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Freudian Slips : Women, Writing, The Foreign Tongue / by Gossy, Mary S., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Borrowing another's words -- Someone else -- N before M, or learning the alphabet from a woman -- The body of the mother tongue -- Living through the slip -- Epilogue : "sangre en las manos."…”
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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Writing in the margins: Jean Rhys -- The future in a different shape: broken form and possibility in The golden notebook -- Romance, marginality, matrilineage: The color purple -- Other side, other woman: Lady oracle.…”
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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / by Brennan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.…”
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