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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Positive images: screening women's films / Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf -- There's more to a positive image than meets the eye / Diane Waldman -- The place of woman in the cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Film and the masquerade: theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Hitchcock, feminism, and the patriarchal unconscious / Tania Modleski -- Women and representation: Can we enjoy alternative pleasure? …”
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Tales from the expat harem foreign women in modern Turkey /

Table of Contents: “…A dispirited and dependent woman reempowers herself by leading her visiting mother on an adventurous cross-country road trip -- Hello, I love you / Amanda Coffin. …”
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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath / by Rahimi Bahmany, Leila

Table of Contents: “…Note continued: The Mirror as the Intersection of Academic and Artistic Talent -- The Mirror as a Weapon of the Femme Fatale -- The Childless Woman: A Narcissist -- The Gigolo: Male Narcissism -- Woman as a Mirror of Male Ego -- Mother in the Mirror -- The Monstrous Degeneration Lurking in the Mirror -- The Promising Mirror -- Child as a Mirror -- The Mirror Image Being Identical with the Self -- The Appalling Otherness of the Specular Self.…”
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Making home work domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 / by Simonsen, Jane E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Squaring the circle -- Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement -- The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home -- Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation -- The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. …”
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Tell this silence Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Duncan, Patti, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: histories of immigration and exclusion of Asians in the U.S. in Maxine Hong Kingston's China men -- "White sound" and silences from stone : discursive silences in the internment writings of Mitsuye Yamada and Joy Kogawa -- Cartographies of silence : language and nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Silence and public discourse : interventions into dominant national and sexual narratives in Anchee Min's Red azalea and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives and feminist movement.…”
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Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / by Bryson, Michael A., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature.…”
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The fragmented female body and identity the postmodern, feminist, and multiethnic writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Pérez, Pa... by June, Pamela B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : multiethnic fragmentation and women's community -- The fragmented body and maternal healing : the examples of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée -- Reliving African matrilineage : re-membering the past in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Childhood scars and women's love in Emma Pérez's Gulf dreams and Paula Gunn Allen's The woman who owned the shadows -- The case of the missing women : chaos and the absence of women's bonds in Kathy Acker's works -- Conclusion : resistance and feminist healing.…”
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Words of witness : black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / by Ards, Angela Ann, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Post-Brown political aesthetics -- Beyond the strong black woman in Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry -- Reclaiming the radicalism of social interdependence in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir -- Honoring the past to move forward in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood -- Collective storytelling as diasporic consciousness in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- Cultivating liberatory joy in Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape -- Epilogue: Teaching "the people": bodies, material histories, and the project of black feminist autobiography.…”
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Jim Tully : American writer, Irish rover, Hollywood brawler / by Bauer, Paul, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Coins for a dead woman's eyes -- Six years of imprisonment -- Hearts ignorant of homes -- Big rock candy mountain -- The end of the road -- The fire and the ring -- Troubled in heart -- Write or starve -- Emmett Lawler -- Hollywood writer -- The road-kid and the little tramp -- Beggars of life -- One more illusion -- Jarnegan -- Circus parade -- Shanty Irish -- Shadows of men -- Beggars abroad -- Blood on the moon -- Laughter in hell -- Ladies in the parlor -- Return to the ring -- The bruiser -- Biddy Brogan's boy -- The last division -- Epilogue.…”
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Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China / by Guo, Li, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Envisioning a nascent feminine agency in Zaishengyuan (Destiny of rebirth) -- Disguised scholar, fox spirit, and moralism in Bishenghua (Blossom from the bush) -- Ethics, filial piety, and narrative sympathy in Mengyingyuan (Dream, image, destiny) -- Gender, spectatorship, and literary portraiture in Mengyingyuan -- Cross-dressing as a collective act in Xianü qunying shi (A history of women warriors) -- Illustrating a new woman in Fengliu zuiren (The valiant and the culprit) -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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Tales from Facebook / by Miller, Daniel, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Picking BlackBerrys -- 12. The History Woman -- Lagniappe -- 13. The Philosophy of Doubles -- pt. 2. …”
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When illness goes public celebrity patients and how we look at medicine / by Lerner, Barron H.

Table of Contents: “…: Barney Clark and the technological imperative -- "You murdered my daughter" : Libby Zion and the reform of medical education -- Patient activism goes Hollywood : how America fought AIDS -- The last angry man and woman : Lorenzo Odone's parents fight the medical establishment.…”
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Inscribing South Asian Muslim women an annotated bibliography & research guide / by Aftab, Tahera

Table of Contents: “…Selected sources for the study of South Asian Muslim women -- Muslim women in the history of South Asia -- Islamic traditions, Muslim women and the reform movement -- Pardah : Muslim women in/out of seclusion -- Religious practices -- In search of their identity : Muslim women setting new goals -- Women, nationalism and religion -- Muslim women's movements in South Asia -- The life cycle of South Asian Muslim women -- Women's rights to inherit property -- Education of South Asian Muslim women -- South Asian Muslim women's health -- Perspectives on South Asian women's development -- The arts and design -- Challanges, threats, and the responses of woman -- Feminism, new scholarship and new toods for development.…”
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The ironies of freedom sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam / by Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…specialization of intervention and coexisting modes of governance -- To the real: ideology and cultural production -- From Antigone to the kneeling woman: a genealogy of the real from socialism to the preparation for marketization -- Love in the time of neoliberalism: ideology and the new social realism in popular culture.…”
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Taking on the big boys, or, Why feminism is good for families, business, and the nation by Bravo, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Overview -- Why social workers earn less than accountants : pay equity -- Can you have a job and a life? -- Can a woman do a man's job? -- You want to see my what? …”
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Facing racial revolution eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection /

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a slavemaster -- The Ogé Insurrection -- The first days of the slave insurrection -- A poet in the midst of insurrection : Amon Odyssée -- An expedition against the insurgents in November 1791 -- Inside the insurgency : Gross Historick recital -- Prisoners of the insurgents in 1792 -- Fighting and atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793 -- Masters and their slaves during the insurrection -- The destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 -- A colonist at sea, 1793 -- Imagining the motives behind the insurrection -- A colonist among the Spanish and the British -- A white captive in the struggle against the Leclerc Expedition -- A family reunion and a religious conversion -- A woman's view of the last days of Cap Français -- A child's memories of the last days of Saint-Domingue -- A survivor of Dessalines's massacres in 1804 -- The story of the last French survivors in Saint-Domingue.…”
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Creative conformity the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women / by Bucar, Elizabeth M.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Note on transcription -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 -- What's a good woman to do? Recasting the symbolics of moral exemplars -- 2. …”
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Wanton West madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / by Morgan, Lael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sinful cities, 1863-1919 -- Prologue: Madeleine : a self-made woman, 1894 -- The summer women of Helena, 1867 -- Butte, the black heart of Montana, 1877 -- Miles City and the Wild West, 1880 -- Last of the silver years, 1887 -- The celestial sex trade, 1900 -- Respectable purple paths, 1900 -- Reflection, 1900 -- The beginning of the end, 1911 -- New options, 1916 -- Epilogue: The wages of sin -- Major players: The women and men who made the most of a wild frontier -- Time line: From the brothels to the Congress.…”
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Musical theatre, realism and entertainment by Taylor, Millie

Table of Contents: “…Musical characterisation in HMS Pinafore and the Rocky horror show -- Encoding the voice : Show boat, Guys and dolls, and musical theatre post-1960 -- Integration and distance in musical theatre : the case of Sweeney Todd -- Layers of representation and the creation of irony : Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Merrily we roll along and The last 5 years -- Alternatives to linearity : Cabaret, Kiss of the spider woman and Assassins -- Illusions of realism in West Side story and actor-musician performances -- Experiencing live musical theatre performance : La Cage aux Folles and Priscilla, queen of the desert -- I've heard that song before : the jukebox musical and entertainment in Jersey boys, Rock of ages, Mamma mia and We will rock you.…”
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"A strange sort of being" the transgender life of Lucy Ann/Joseph Israel Lobdell, 1829-1912 / by Lobdell, Bambi L., 1956-

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