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Women and Malay voices undercurrent murmurings in Indonesia's colonial past / by Hellwig, Tineke

Table of Contents: “…Gramser Brinkman : a double murder and suicide -- Nona Diana : extramarital adventures in Batavia -- Sara Specx : a scandalous love affaire in 1629 -- Nyais of plantation managers -- Hermine Tan : a western educated woman -- Peranakan women's voices.…”
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Medical humanities, sociology and the suffering self : surviving health / by Lowe, Wendy (Lecturerer in medical sociology)

Table of Contents: “…Stitching suffering together -- Patterns of suffering -- Suffering as foundational to health professional education -- Sorting the wood from the trees -- The suffering self and burning woman -- Pilgrimages -- how can medical humanities think differently about suffering? …”
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The White Indians of Mexican Cinema : Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age / by García Blizzard, Mónica

Table of Contents: “…Idealized pre-Colombian womanhood -- Taming the Tehuana -- Revolutionary politics, colonized aesthetics -- Reframing Mestizaje: white, Myans, Indigenous spirituality, and Cenote suicides -- María Isabel: a white Indita for modern Mexico -- Indios, desire, and the white Mexican woman.…”
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Perspectives : Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England / by Shires, Linda M., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Rossetti's double work of art and the viewer/reader -- The photographic perspectives of Henry Peach Robinson and Lady Clementina Hawarden -- Points of view in "Pippa passes," The woman in white, and Silas Marner -- Coda.…”
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The atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair / by LeBeau, Bryan F.

Table of Contents: “…Curlett -- The most hated woman in America -- The atheist -- Why I am an atheist -- Articulating the atheist position -- O'Hair's prominence recedes -- O'Hair retires -- Epilogue : The strange disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair.…”
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Sandra Day O'Connor justice in the balance / by McFeatters, Ann Carey, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The right woman at the right time -- A girl of the West -- No women need apply -- Shall we call you Madam Justice? …”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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The playing fields of Eton equality and excellence in modern meritocracy / by LaVaque-Manty, Mika

Table of Contents: “…Kids and Körperkultur : on the difficulties of fostering civic independence -- Dueling for equality : the master's tools will take down the master's house -- Mens sana, the playing fields of Eton, and other clichés -- Physical culture for the masses -- Being a woman and other disabilities -- The political theory of doping.…”
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Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism Louis XIV and the Port Royal nuns / by Kostroun, Daniella J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Jansenism as a "woman problem" -- Controversy and reform at Port Royal -- Jansenism's political turn, 1652-1661 -- The limits to obedience, 1661-1664 -- A feminist response to absolutism, 1664-1669 -- The unsettled peace, 1669-1679 -- A royal victory, 1679-1709.…”
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Jerry Herman poet of the showtune / by Citron, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…If you believe -- Early days -- College and beyond -- Milk and honey -- A damned exasperating woman -- Hello, Dolly! -- Mame -- Mame--and its movie -- Dear world -- Mack and Mabel -- The grand tour -- La cage aux folles -- After La cage -- The road ahead.…”
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Judaism and the visual image a Jewish theology of art / by Raphael, Melissa

Table of Contents: “…The second commandment in Jewish art and thought -- Genesis 1 and the creation of the image -- What does a Jewish woman look like? Gender and images of Jews in art -- Sublimity and representation of the Holocaust in art -- Towards a theology of the Holocaust image -- The dancing figure of Jewish history.…”
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Revolutionary womanhood feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt / by Bier, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism -- Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman" -- Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws -- The family is a factory : regulating reproduction -- Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries.…”
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The emerging female citizen gender and enlightenment in Spain / by Smith, Theresa Ann, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Developing ideologies of citizenship -- The woman question -- Admitted equals: art and letters -- On equal terms?…”
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Joseph Conrad and the anxiety of knowledge / by Freedman, William, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Ambivalent fabulist, indeterminate fables -- Forbidden knowledge and the saving illusion -- The lie of fiction: Heart of darkness -- The soft spot: Lord Jim -- A more dangerous revolution: Under western eyes -- Drowning in the romance of the shallows: The rescue -- Appendix: Woman and truth, the history of an association.…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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Resisting Hitler Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra / by Brysac, Shareen Blair

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Space to reason a spatial theory of human thought / by Knauff, Markus

Table of Contents: “…Inner eye and inner space -- Reasoning and spatial layout models -- Reasoning and imageability -- Reasoning and working memory -- Reasoning and the brain -- Reasoning and indeterminacy -- The core theory in a computer program -- Explaining the myth of thinking in pictures -- What we can learn from a Neanderthal woman.…”
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Telling histories Black women historians in the ivory tower /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A telling history / Deborah Gray White -- Un essai d'ego-histoire / Nell Irvin Painter -- Becoming a Black woman's historian / Darlene Clark Hine -- A journey through history / Merline Pitre -- Being and thinking outside of the box : a Black woman's experience in academia / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- My history in history / Deborah Gray White -- The politics of memory and place : reflections of an African American female scholar / Sharon Harley -- History without illusion / Julie Saville -- On the margins : creating a space and place in the academy / Wanda A. …”
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Doubting sex inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories / by Mak, Geertje

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