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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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Soldiers' Stories : Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II / by Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Auxiliary military women -- Invisible soldiers: representing military nursing -- Musical military women -- Women on top: comedy, hierarchy, and the military woman -- Military women and service comedy: M*A*S*H and Private Benjamin -- Controversy, celebration, and scandal: military women in the news media -- Conflict over combat: training and testing military women -- Scandalous stories: military women as victims, avengers, and investigators.…”
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Gender myths v. working realities using social science to reformulate sexual harassment law / by Beiner, Theresa M.

Table of Contents: “…Making a more realistic assessment of what is sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute sexual harassment -- The reasonable woman standard : much ado about nothing? -- The conundrum of "unwelcome" sexual harassment -- Conceptualizing sexual harassment as "because of sex" -- Reality bites the Ellerth/Faragher standard for imputing liability to the employers for supervisor sexual harassment -- Making targets whole and deterring defendants -- The new sexual harassment claim.…”
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Screening the gothic by Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Gothic revenants : a tale of three Hamlets -- Putting the gothic in : Clarissa, Sense and sensibility, Mansfield Park, and The time machine -- Taking the gothic out : 'tis pity she's a whore, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The woman in white, and Lady Audley's secret -- Fragmenting the gothic : Jane Eyre and Dracula -- Gothic and the family : The mummy returns, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, and The lord of the rings : The fellowship of the ring.…”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…The strange case of a wicked and cruel woman.…”
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Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran the life and legacy of a popular female artist / by Talattof, Kamran

Table of Contents: “…Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction -- Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony -- Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time -- Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film -- Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity -- Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists -- Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword.…”
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Constructing girlhood through the periodical press, 1850-1915 by Moruzi, Kristine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : girls of the period -- The religious girl : girlhood in the Monthly packet (1851-99) -- The latest sensation : girlhood and the girl of the Period miscellany -- The healthy girl : fitness and beauty in the Girl's own paper (1880-1907) -- The educated girl : Atalanta (1887-98) and the debate on education -- The marrying girl : social purity and marriage in the Young woman (1892-1915) -- The modern girl : heroic adventures in the Girl's realm (1898-1915).…”
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Africana women writers : performing diaspora, staging healing / by Marzette, DeLinda

Table of Contents: “…Making rite : w/riting renewal in an age of lunacy in selected works of Nicole Werewere Liking -- Coming to voice : navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock -- Diasporic fissures and Afro-Caribbean identity in the plays of Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé -- Who measures the power of woman in spoons and scales : women's worth in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women -- For colored girls : treading storms, discovering rainbows.…”
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A World of Fiction : Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History / by Bode, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…Abstraction, singularity, textuality: the equivalence of "close" and "distant" reading -- Back to the future : a new scholarly object for (data-rich) literary history -- From world to trove to data : tracing a history of transmission -- Into the unknown : literary anonymity and the inscription of reception -- Fictional systems : network analysis and syndication networks -- "Man people woman life" / "Creek sheep cattle horses" : influence, distinction, and literary traditions.…”
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Believing scholars ten Catholic intellectuals /

Table of Contents: “…Colish -- Catholicism and human rights / Mary Ann Glendon -- A feeling for hierarchy / Mary Douglas -- My life as a "woman" : editing the world / Margaret O'Brien Steinfels -- Liberal Catholicism reexamined / Peter Steinfels -- The faith of a theologian / Avery Cardinal Dulles.…”
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After the war the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped / by Hardin, David, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. …”
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Intersexuality and the law why sex matters / by Greenberg, Julie A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Legal reinforcement of gender norms -- Can i marry a man, woman, either, or neither? -- What's in a name? -- Where may I live and which bathroom do I use? …”
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The nineteenth-century sensation novel by Pykett, Lyn

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Traps : African American Men on Gender and Sexuality / by Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850

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Black print with a white carnation : Mildred Brown and the Omaha star newspaper, 1938-1989 / by Forss, Amy Helene

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Romantic Europe and the ghost of Italy by Luzzi, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…-- Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo -- The death of Italy and birth of European romanticism -- Heirs of a dark wood -- Dante and autobiography in the age of Voltaire -- Alfieri's Prince, Dante, and the romantic self -- Wordsworth, Dante, and British romantic identity -- Corpus italicum -- Italy as woman and wound, Dante to Leopardi -- The body of Parini -- Italy's broken heart.…”
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Finding Charity's folk : enslaved and free black women in Maryland / by Millward, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…Moving freedom, shaping slavery: enslaved women in Charity Folks's Maryland -- Reproduction and motherhood in slavery, 1757-1830 -- Beyond Charity: petitions for freedom and the black woman's body politic, 1780-1858 -- Commodities and kin: gender and family networking for freedom, 1780-1860 -- Moving slavery, shaping freedom: households and the gendering of poverty in the nineteenth century -- Conclusion. …”
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From Justinian to Branimir : the making of the Middle ages in Dalmatia / by Džino, Danijel

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Dalmatia in time and space -- Chapter 2: "An old woman's summer": a glimpse into late antique Dalmatia -- Chapter 3: "Winter is coming": signs of deeper social changes in sixth century Dalmatia -- Chapter 4: The collapse of Byzantine Dalmatia -- Chapter 5: After the apocalypse: Dalmatia after 620 -- Chapter 6: Clash of the empires and the Treaty of Aachen (775-812) -- Chapter 7: Tempora domini Brannimero.…”
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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”
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The sea can wash away all evils modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean / by Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat -- The crisis of modern marine pollution -- The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements -- "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea -- "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes -- "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire -- "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".…”
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