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Jane Grey Swisshelm an unconventional life, 1815-1884 / by Hoffert, Sylvia D.

Table of Contents: “…That olde-time religion -- A marriage fraught with conflict -- The troublesome matter of property -- Woman's work in a man's world -- A different sort of politics -- A world in need of improvement -- Respectable but not genteel.…”
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Earthy mysticism spirituality for unspiritual people / by Sample, Tex

Table of Contents: “…The death of a blue jay -- Evil -- The syrup can -- 13 taxi -- Sandwiches and Kool-Aid -- "Purdy" -- Aunt Betsy -- "In the garden" -- Little girls and Indian dolls -- To love one woman -- Earthy mysticism.…”
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Colorado's volunteer infantry in the Philippine wars, 1898-1899 by Hunt, Geoffrey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Remember the Maine -- To hell with Spain -- "The worst kind of new woman" -- Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos -- Civilize 'em with a Krag -- And return us to our own beloved home -- Underneath the starry flag.…”
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The Eve/Hagar paradigm in the fiction of Quince Duncan by Martin-Ogunsola, Dellita, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Intimations of womanism in Dawn song -- Womanist footprints in The Pocomía rebellion -- A tale of two wives in The four mirrors -- The House of Moody in For the sake of peace -- A voice from down under in Dead-end street.…”
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Allah's angels Chechen women in war / by Murphy, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…Mat ogni : the traditional Chechen woman -- Welcome to hell! -- The pain continues -- Baking bread -- The sisterhood -- Mountains of bodies -- I'm not who you think I am -- Rising from the ashes -- Saving Pompeii.…”
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Traditions of the Osage stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche /

Table of Contents: “…Allegorical story of tribal organziation -- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta) -- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- What to dream of (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf) -- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Deer-hunting stories -- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- Death of an old warrior -- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- Origin of the whistle bundle -- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog) -- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf) -- Captive of the Pawnee -- The boy driven from home -- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The youngest wife -- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf) -- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson) -- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men -- Strange medicine man -- The death of Village Maker -- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men -- The cruel medicine man and the orphan -- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- The woman dreamer -- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler) -- The young warrier and his dead wife -- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler) -- The squirrel maidens -- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- The coyote and the woodpecker -- The coyote and the fawn.…”
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Mary, the devil, and taro Catholicism and women's work in a Micronesian society / by Flinn, Juliana, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The feast of the Immaculate Conception -- 3. A woman's place is in the garden -- 4. Taro -- 5. Who's in charge and are any of them women? …”
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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont unlikely champion of women's rights / by Hoffert, Sylvia D.

Table of Contents: “…An Impossible Child -- Every Inch a General -- A Sex Battle -- Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose -- Belmont's Orphan Child -- The Last Word -- Postscript: My Turn -- Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights.…”
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The art and ideology of the trade union emblem, 1850-1925 / by Ravenhill-Johnson, Annie, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The genre -- The emblem within the emblem -- Depicting the worker -- James Sharples and his legacy -- The development of the architecture of the emblem -- Arthur John Waudby and the symbols of Freemasonry -- Men, myths and machines -- The classical woman -- Walter Crane -- The art of copying.…”
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel by Emrys, A. B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Framed: a brief history of documents as narrative frames -- How he wrote his books: the apprentice years of framing testimony -- The woman in white: Collins launches the casebook novel -- Counterpoint witnessing in No name and Armadale -- The moonstone: Collins eclipses his first casebook -- Framed testimony in Collins's later novels -- The casebook after Collins -- Before Laura: Vera Caspary's early career and novels -- Laura: sensation roots of a noir novel -- Laura and Bedelia: "new woman" noir -- After Laura: Caspary's other casebook novels -- Caspary continues multiple focus -- Reframed: multiple focus in popular and literary texts -- Conclusion.…”
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After the "Speculative Turn": Realism, Philosophy, and Feminism /

Table of Contents: “…Preface : after the "speculative turn" / Katerina Kolozova -- Philosophy, sexism, emotion, rationalism / Nina Power -- The other woman / Katherine Behar -- Liberer epistemologiquement le feminisme / Anne-Françoise Schmid -- Notes for And they were dancing / Patricia Ticineto Clough -- No : Foucault / Joan Copjec -- Thinking WithOut / Jelisaveta Blagojević -- Who is the other woman in the context of transfeminist, transmigrant, and transgender struggles in global capitalism? …”
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Places in the bone a memoir / by Dine, Carol

Table of Contents: “…The tape in the drawer -- The locked box -- Bad girls -- The woman in my poem -- Treatments -- Sisters -- Reconstruction -- The mahogany box -- Talking to God -- Exile -- Dear mother -- Places in the bone -- A chain of women -- Lovers and sons -- In remission -- The lighthouse.…”
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The politics of gender in colonial Korea education, labor, and health, 1910-1945 / by Yoo, Theodore Jun, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women in Chosŏn Korea -- The "new woman" and the politics of love, marriage, and divorce in colonial Korea -- The female worker : from home to the factory -- Discoursing in numbers : the female worker and the politics of gender -- The colonized body : Korean women's sexuality and health.…”
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An unfinished republic leading by word and deed in modern China / by Strand, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Republican China -- Slapping Song Jiaoren -- Speaking parts in Chinese history -- A woman's Republic -- Seeing like a citizen -- Losing a speech -- Sun Yat-sen's last words -- Conclusion: Leading and being led.…”
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Group analytic music therapy by Ahonen-Eerikäinen, Heidi

Table of Contents: “…"Too scared to be visible" : Mary, a case study of a voiceless woman who found her identity in a hall of mirrors.…”
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Contesting realities the public sphere and morality in southern Yemen / by Dahlgren, Susanne

Table of Contents: “…From colonialism to a neocolonial state -- Law and court : the making of familial ideologies during the Colonial era -- The making of the new Yemeni woman -- "This is our customs and traditions" -- Five social maps and a mystery -- Morality, causality, and social praxis.…”
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Modern art, 19th & 20th centuries / by Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-

Table of Contents: “…--On a painting of Van Gogh.--Seurat.--Picasso's Woman with a fan.--Chagall's Illustrations for the Bible.…”

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Your boss is not your mother eight steps to eliminating office drama and creating positive relationships at work / by Mandel, Debra

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Erotic mentoring women's transformations in the university / by Rushing, Janice Hocker

Table of Contents: “…Fatal attractions: Siren. Veiled woman. Amazon -- Part III. One-in-herself: Psyche's marriage. …”
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