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Trauma and its representations the social life of mimesis in post-revolutionary France / by Jenson, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Iconoclasm : setting wounds in stone at the Musee des monuments français (1795-1816) -- Transpositionality : the political gets personal in Constant's Cécile -- Plagiarism : Duras, Desbordes-Valmore, and the scandalous potency of the woman author -- Harmony : Lamartine's social pain -- Analogy : slavery to duplicity in Sand's Indiana -- Fetishism.…”
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The boardinghouse in nineteenth-century America / by Gamber, Wendy, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Houses and homes -- Away from home -- Keeping house -- "The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living" -- Boarders' beefs -- Nests of crime and dens of vice -- "Will they board, or keep house?" …”
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An evil day in Georgia : the killing of Coleman Osborn and the death penalty in the progressive-era South / by Smith, Robert N. (Robert Neil)

Table of Contents: “…The road to nowhere -- Land where we'll never grow old -- Chasing shadows -- The accused -- The end of the road -- Redemption man -- Payment to the law -- "Pretty by ordinary standards" -- The new woman -- Retribution -- Justice denied -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Research methods -- Appendix II: Literature.…”
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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Alice Callahan's Wynema -- "A woman to let alone" : E. Pauline Johnson and the performance of anger -- Lost (and gained) in translation : language, anger, and agency in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes -- Conclusion : an anger of their own.…”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Recognition in Mozart's operas by Waldoff, Jessica Pauline, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Operatic enlightenment in Die Zauberflöte -- Recognition scenes in theory and practice -- Reading opera for the plot -- Sentimental knowledge in La finta giardiniera -- Recognition denied in Don Giovanni -- Sense and sensibility in Cosi fan tutte -- Fiordiligi : a woman of feeling -- The sense of the ending in La clemenza di Tito.…”
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Small works poverty and economic development in southwestern China / by Donaldson, John A., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…-- Roads : building connections to markets -- Migration : go east, young man (and woman) -- Tourism : joyous village life -- Coal mining : black gold -- Conclusion : the micro-oriented state, development, and poverty.…”
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Postnational feminisms postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai / by Ahmad, Hena

Table of Contents: “…Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational -- Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve -- Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day -- Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.…”
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Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 / by Roces, Mina, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The religious roots of women's oppression -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women -- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure) -- Women's studies on the air -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces.…”
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Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms / by Lowe, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Discourse and heterogeneity : situating orientalism -- Travel narratives and orientalism : Montagu and Montesquieu -- Orient as woman, orientalism as sentimentalism: Flaubert -- Orientalism as literary criticism : the reception of E.M. …”
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Liaisons dangereuses sex, law, and diplomacy in the age of Frederick the Great / by Lindemann, Mary

Table of Contents: “…-- A most difficult case -- A very diplomatic affair -- Dramatis personae -- Entr'acte -- A brave and upright cavalier? -- A woman of pleasure -- A real Polish prince, a fake Italian count, and an authentic Spanish hidalgo.…”
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The women of CourtWatch reforming a corrupt family court system / by Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Before CourtWatch : a broken system -- Florence : a woman in two worlds -- Gender bias and the law : the blind maiden -- Ethical dilemmas : practicing family law -- Florence, Melanie, and Diana : "housewives dabbling in politics" -- The election of 1994 : "the babes that slew the goliath" -- Houston : after CourtWatch.…”
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Romance and readership in twentieth century France by Holmes, Diana, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…A feminine genre, romance and women -- Passion, piety, and the new woman: romantic fiction at the Belle Epoque -- Reaction and resistance, romance in the 1930's and under the Occupation -- Love in a brave new world, romance in the 1950's -- Romance after feminism -- Love in a postmodern age, contemporary romance in France.…”
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Bessie Head the road of peace of mind : a critical appreciation / by Johnson, Joyce

Table of Contents: “…The context of Bessie Head's fiction -- A portrait of the artist as a young woman : The cardinals -- Escaping "the heat of the sun" : When rain clouds gather -- The moon's sphere : Maru -- In a twilight zone : A question of power -- Dredging the river : The collector of treasures -- Sunrise at sunset : A bewitched crossroad.…”
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Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: PART 1 The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker -- "I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People": -- The Emergence of Margaret Walker ii -- Maryemma Graham -- Black Women Writers at Work: -- An Interview with Margaret Walker 28 -- Claudia Tate -- Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South 44 -- Joyce Pettis -- Down from the Mountaintop 55 -- Melissa Walker -- The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism": -- Revolution, Vision, History 66 -- Minrose C. …”
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From Curlers to Chainsaws : Women and Their Machines /

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; Hearth and Home; Norma Tilden -- Maytag Washer, 1939; Joyce Dyer -- My Mother's Singer; Psyche Williams-Forson -- If You Can't Stand the Heat: Ruminations on the Stove from an African American Woman; Rebecca McClanahan -- Sad-Iron, Glad-Iron; Joy Castro -- Grip; Bedroom and Birthing Room; E.J. …”
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Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science an astronomer among the American romantics / by Bergland, Renée L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Urania's island -- Nantucket Athena -- The sexes of science -- Miss Mitchell's comet -- "A center of rude eyes and tongues" -- The shoulders of giants -- The yankee Corinnes -- A mentor in Florence -- The war years -- Vassar Female College -- No miserable bluestocking -- "Good woman that she is" -- The undevout astronomer -- Retrograde motion -- Urania's inversion.…”
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New women of the old faith gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / by Cummings, Kathleen Sprows

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chiefly among women : the old faith, the new woman, and the creation of a usable past -- Enlarging our lives : higher education, Americanism, and Trinity College for Catholic women -- The wageless work of paradise : Catholic sisters, professionalization, and the school question -- The morbid consciousness of womanhood : Catholicism, antisuffrage, and the limits of sisterhood.…”
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The South Korean film renaissance local hitmakers, global provocateurs / by Choi, Jinhee

Table of Contents: “…Gangster cinema -- I'm not a girl, yet not a woman: romance films -- Once upon a time in high school: teen pics -- Not just metteurs-en-scène?…”
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Written in Blood : Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam / by Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis

Table of Contents: “…A big city in cultural flux: eighteenth-century Amsterdam -- No one suspected he would end as a murderer -- A new woman -- How to dump a body when there are no cars? …”
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