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The status of women under Islamic law and modern Islamic legislation by Nasir, Jamal J.

Table of Contents: “…The branches of Islam and the schools of law -- The woman's right to education -- Inheritance rights for women -- The Islamic institution of marriage -- The modern marriage -- Marriage impediments -- Guardianship in relation to marriage -- The preliminaries of marriage -- The form of the contract -- Marriage formalities -- The effects of marriage -- Mixed marriages -- The dower -- Maintenance -- Dissolution of marriage -- The iddat -- Parentage -- Fosterage (suckling) and custody -- Conflict of laws.…”
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On creating a usable culture Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism / by Molloy, Maureen, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The problem of American culture -- The "jungle flapper" : civilization, repression, and the homogenous society -- "Lords of an empty creation" : masculinity, puritanism, and cultural stagnation -- "Every woman deviating from the code" : cultural lag, moral contagion, and social disintegration -- "Maladjustment of a worse order" : temperament, psychosexual misidentification, and the refuge of private life -- On creating a usable culture.…”
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American Muslim women, religious authority, and activism more than a prayer / by Hammer, Juliane

Table of Contents: “…A woman-led Friday prayer: March 18, 2005 -- Women leading prayers: tracing the debate -- Gender justice and Qur'anic exegesis -- History, women's rights, and Islamic law -- Authority, tradition, community -- Space, leadership, voice -- Media, representation(s), politics -- Memoirs, narratives, and marketing -- Covers and other matters: concluding thoughts.…”
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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Rewriting Language : How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use / by Luck, Christiane

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Linguistics and literature -- Problematising the linguistic status quo - The Left Hand of Darkness and Häutungen -- Proposing linguistic neutrality - The Cook and the Carpenter and Woman on the Edge of Time -- Reversing the linguistic status quo - Egalias dotre -- 'It's good to make people realise ... double standards' - Evaluating the impact of literary texts thematising sex/gender and language -- Conclusions.…”
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The English housewife by Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637

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Career movies American business and the success mystique / by Boozer, Jack, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…THE EMERGENCE OF THE CAREER WOMAN 50 -- CHAPTER 3. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL IMPULSE 95 -- CHAPTER 4. …”
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French socialists before Marx workers, women, and the social question in France / by Pilbeam, Pamela M., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Plural socialism -- 2 The social question -- 3 Revolutionary inspirations -- 4 Religion and the early socialists -- 5 Socialists and education: to repulse the barbarians -- 6 The "new woman" -- 7 Association: dream worlds -- 8 Worker associations before 1848 -- 9 Association: socialist hopes in the Second Republic -- 10 Association: the conservative reaction in the Second Republic -- 11 Conclusion.…”
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Letting the other speak proclaiming the stories of biblical women / by Hartman, Tracy Kemp, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…: the medium at Endor in I Samuel 28 -- Jesus, what were you thinking?: the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15:21-28 -- Well, well, fancy meeting you here -- Moving beyond the sermon.…”
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Elly Peterson "mother" of the moderates / by Fitzgerald, Sara, 1951-

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Cultural Reflections of Medusa The Shadow in the Glass. by Hedgecock, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…5 Medusean images in paintings by Franz von StuckBibliography; 6 Edvard Munch and the fatal woman of Medusa; Early influences on the artist; Fru Heiberg; Munch in Paris; The cat and Medusa motifs; The use of the mask; The Medusa head in art; Bibliography; Part III Medusa in the twenty-first century; 7 Nan Goldin and a new vision of Medusa; Bibliography; 8 Liz Craft and the all knowing "I"; Bibliography; Index…”
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Women, sustainable entrepreneurship and the economy a Global Perspective / by Caliyurt, Kiymet Tunca

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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…"Infection in the sentence : the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship" from The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination (1979) / Sandra M. …”
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Feminism and the legacy of revolution Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas / by Kampwirth, Karen, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from feminine guerrillas to feminist revolutionaries -- "Building the new fatherland, we create the new woman" : gender politics in Sandinista Nicaragua -- Reacting to the revolution : feminist and antifeminist politics in post-Sandinista Nicaragua -- Feminists break away in El Salvador -- Conquering the space that is ours : women, civil society, and the Zapatista rebellion -- Feminism and revolutionary movements in comparative perspective.…”
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Whiskey river (take my mind) the true story of Texas honky-tonk / by Bush, Johnny

Table of Contents: “…I love you so much it hurts -- The pipeliner blues -- Forever and always -- Crazy arms -- Night life -- Devil's disciple -- The other woman -- The sound of a heartache -- Undo the right -- You gave me a mountain -- Whiskey river -- Man with no soul at all -- Time changes everything -- Please talk to my heart -- Home to Texas.…”
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Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans / by Schafer, Judith Kelleher, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Selling sex and the law -- "Disgusting depravity" : sex across the color line -- The sexual exploitation of children -- Infamous public women -- Larceny and robbery among prostitutes -- Violent lives -- The murder of a "lewd and abandoned woman" : State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker -- Keeping a brothel in antebellum New Orleans -- "An ordinance concerning lewd and abandoned women."…”
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Domestic affairs intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / by Straub, Kristina, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The "servant problem" and the family -- "In the posture of children" : servants, family pedagogy, and sexuality -- Interpreting the woman servant : Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 1760 -- Dangerous intimacies : Roxana, Amy, and the crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 1767 -- Performing the manservant, 1730 to 1760 -- Men servants' sexuality in the novel, 1740 to 1794 -- Conclusion: Notes of a footman on "the servant problem," 1790.…”
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Women at law in early colonial Maryland by Witkowski, Monica C., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…: violent crimes -- "Nor a woman chaste" : sexual offenses -- Maryland women and property -- Conclusion : a "race of convicts"?.…”
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Wordsworth, Hemans, and politics, 1800-1830 : romantic crises / by Kim, Benjamin, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…"Michael": late eighteenth-century republican Millenarianism -- Wordsworth, poverty, and relief -- Generating a national sublime: the River Duddon and the guide to the lakes -- "She is no sculptured form of woe": meaningful death in Felicia Hemans's early and middle periods -- Marriage and maternal love in the Siege of Valencia and Records of woman -- Victorian afterlives: Felicia Hemans at Rydal Mount in 1830.…”
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Lincoln's generals' wives : four women who influenced the Civil War-for better and for worse / by Hooper, Candice Shy

Table of Contents: “…Center of gravity: Julia Dent Grant -- Conclusion: "The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong".…”
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