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Wilkie Collins and Copyright Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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Wilkie Collins and Copyright : Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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Philo’s Perception of Women / by Sly, Dorothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Traditional Views of Women -- The State of Scholarship -- Philo's Language -- Woman and Virgin -- Biblical Women (I): Eve -- Biblical WOmen (II): The Others -- Biblical Virgins (I) -- Biblical (II): Sarah and Rebecca -- Biblical Virgins (III): Leah (Rachel), Dinah, Tamar, and Hannah -- Women of Philo's World -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The politics of public housing Black women's struggles against urban inequality / by Williams, Rhonda Y.

Table of Contents: “…Creating "a little heaven for poor people": decent housing and respectable communities -- "A woman can understand": dissidence in 1940s' public housing -- Shifting landscapes in postwar Baltimore -- "When then came the change": the fight against disrepute -- "An awakening giant": the search for poor people's political power -- "Sunlight at early dawn": economic struggles, public housing and welfare rights.…”
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Warnings to the kings and advice on restoring Spain by Guevara, María de, d. 1683

Table of Contents: “…Tratado y advertencias hechas por una mujer celosa del bien de su Rey y corrida de parte de España (1663) = Treatise and warnings by a woman, concerned for the good of her king, and affronted by part of Spain (1663) -- Desengaños de la corte, y mujeres valerosas (1664) = Disenchantments at the court and valorous women (1664).…”
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Guyana diaries women's lives across difference / by Nettles, Kimberly D.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introductions -- Histories -- Critical incidents: representing others, representing self -- The Guyana diaries -- Shifting ground -- Women's work -- Woman out of place -- Meet us where we are -- "By the grace of God, we are making out" -- "We all ... we is women together" -- A daughter comes home ... to self -- Leaving Guyana -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.…”
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The other women's lib gender and body in Japanese women's fiction / by Bullock, Julia C.

Table of Contents: “…or how I learned to hate my body -- Odd bodies -- The body of the other woman -- Conclusion: Power, violence, and language in the age of high economic growth.…”
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The grand regulator the miseducation of Nova Scotia's teachers, 1838-1997 / by Perry, George D.

Table of Contents: “…Beyond "The mere giving of knowledge" : the elusive balance between scholarship and training, 1870-1926 -- pt. 3. Training as a woman's story, 1870-1961 : the licensing, training, and education of women teachers -- pt. 4. …”
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Household servants in early modern domestic tragedy by Sheeha, Iman

Table of Contents: “…I will kill my master: Murderous Service in The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham -- An honest knave: Servants in A Warning for Fair Women -- Down goes the house of us: Serving the Dysfunctional Household in Thomas Middleton's A Yorkshire Tragedy -- A house in a sweet pickle: Servants and Disordered Domesticity in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness -- Conclusion.…”
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Making room for leadership : power, space and influence / by Morse, MaryKate, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Bodied influence : leadership and the body -- Holding the dynamite : the ethics of power -- Simon and the sinner woman : Jesus' use of power -- The epicenter : how leaders take up space -- The "it" factor : power in presence -- The law of the jungle : visual marks of presence -- Second impressions : visceral marks of presence -- Bean-counting social space : the economics of power -- Space-taking and space-hiding : using power well -- Open space : managing our own souls -- Getting in the sandbox : practical strategies -- The guardians : overseeing a leader's use of power.…”
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She does math! real-life problems from women on the job /

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Sacred mission, worldly ambition Black Christian nationalism in the age of Jim Crow / by Oltman, Adele, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Mapping Black Savannah : nation and religion -- Holding the line for the Word : Black evangelicals below the Mason-Dixon -- "Even if He is a woman" : Savannah's talented tenth and Black suffrage -- "Have hardly had straw" : Black Christian nation building and White Christian philanthropy -- "Peace and harmony of the church" : the secularization of Black Savannah -- Epilogue: From Black Christian nationalism to civil rights.…”
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Transcribing class and gender masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices / by Srole, Carole, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Performing independence : male clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers from 1820 to 1870 -- Treasury girls and the masses : from degraded women workers to employees -- Stepping-stones and short ladders : men's faltering independence -- The male stenographers' solution : the language of professionalism -- Typewriter girls and lady stenographers : the challenges of respectability -- "My fondest hopes will have been realized" : independence, ambition, and the new woman -- Performances of professionalism.…”
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Crossing through Chueca lesbian literary culture in Queer Madrid / by Robbins, Jill, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : marching toward marriage -- A brief history of Chueca and Madrid's Queer space -- Lesbian literary identities in the Madrid book business -- The new safita: Andalusia and the phallic woman in Plumas de España -- Lesbian-themed best-sellers and the politics of acceptance -- Dislocations : identity and communication in Cenicienta en Chueca -- Popular lesbian fiction : romance, literature, and legislation -- Conclusion : toward lesbian visibility.…”
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The feminine ethos in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia by Hilder, Monika B., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The theological feminism of the "old woman" of Oxford -- True royalty: becoming yourself in The lion, the witch and the wardrobe -- Receiving lion-strength: growing up in Prince Caspian -- Baptized into the light: journeying in The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" -- Guarding the gift of memory in The silver chair -- Flying to freedom in The horse and his boy -- Awakening to life in The magician's nephew -- Fighting the battle of faith in The last battle -- Afterword.…”
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Remaking Chinese cinema through the prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood / by Wang, Yiman, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The goddess : tracking the "unknown woman" from Hollywood through Shanghai to Hong Kong -- Family resemblance, class conflicts : re-version of the sisterhood singsong drama -- The love parade goes on : western-costume Cantonese opera film and the foreignizing remake -- Mr. …”
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The horse in early modern English culture : bridled, curbed, and tamed / by De Ornellas, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Pricked more with the spur then the provender : hungry horses and Woodstock -- Agency and/or containment? : man/woman and horse/rider relationships in early modern England -- Trampling on the bald pate : Morocco the wonder horse and the humiliation of St. …”
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Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / by Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Sympathy and the American newspaper woman -- Representing institutions: asylums and prisons in American periodicals -- Scenes of sympathy in Margaret Fuller's New-York Tribune reportage -- Entering unceremoniously: Fanny Fern, sympathy, and tales of confinement -- Making a spectacle of herself: Nellie Bly, stunt reporting, and marketed sympathy -- Sympathy and sensation: Elizabeth Jordan, Lizzie Borden, and the female reporter in the late nineteenth-century -- Afterword.…”
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Privately Empowered Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Conjugating feminisms: African, Islamic as African-Islamic discourse -- Connecting vocabularies: a grammar of histories, politics, and priorities in African and Islamic feminisms -- Noetic education and Islamic faith: personal transformation in the stillborn -- Historical templates and Islamic disposition: personal journeys in the virtuous woman -- Spiritual legacies and worship: personal spaces in the descendants -- Frequent functions and references: personal solutions in sacred apples and destiny.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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