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Chemotherapy and biotherapy scenarios

Table of Contents: “…The case of a 64-year-old male with metastatic colorectal cancer -- The case of a 67-year-old participant in a clinical trial -- The case of a 45-year-old female with ovarian cancer -- The case of a 17-year-old male with sarcoma -- The case of a 67-year-old male with lung cancer -- The case of a 66-year-old female with leukemia -- The case of a young woman with cervical cancer -- The case of a 50-year-old male with stomatitis -- The case of a 56-year-old male with diarrhea -- The case of a 78-year-old male with lymphoma -- The 26-year-old male presenting with easy bruising -- The case of a 47-year-old male receiving salvage therapy -- Chemotherapy safety : "real-life events".…”
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Press, platform, pulpit Black feminist publics in the era of reform / by Zackodnik, Teresa C.

Table of Contents: “…Wells's pedagogy of American lynching -- "We must be up and doing": feminist Black nationalism in the press -- Conclusion : feminist affiliations in a divisive climate : Anna Julia Cooper's "woman versus the Indian".…”
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The new Asian city three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / by Watson, Jini Kim, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation -- Part III. …”
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The beauty of the real what Hollywood can learn from contemporary French actresses /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : two myths -- Teen rebellion -- The young woman alone : Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, and Nathalie Baye -- Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Béart, and the temptations of vanity -- The shame of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi -- Sandrine Kiberlain -- Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, and La cérémonie -- The allure of Hollywood -- Alone at midlife : Nathalie Baye in the nineties -- The French Meryl Streep -- Agnès Jaoui -- Marriage and adultery (same thing) -- Géraldine Pailhas and building a career -- Isabelle Carré and madness -- Les femmes d'un certain age -- The new talent -- France and America -- Appendix one : how to sell French films in the United States -- Appendix two : how to see French films in the United States.…”
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The man that got away / by Rimler, Walter

Table of Contents: “…-- The wizard of Oz -- An itinerant songwriter -- Writing with Johnny Mercer -- "One for my baby" -- "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive" -- St. Louis woman -- Descent into misery -- "She was sweet and adorable and then she went mad" -- A star is born -- House of flowers -- In search of fame -- An opera -- Two debacles -- The 1960s -- Waiting.…”
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Gender and the American presidency nine presidential women and the barriers they faced / by Sheckels, Theodore F.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Gender and the American presidency: nine presidential women and the barriers they faced -- Nancy Landon Kassebaum: the junior senator from Kansas with a mind of her own -- Dianne Feinstein: the loneliness of a moderate voice -- Barbara Mikulski: wrong style, wrong appearance -- Elizabeth Hanford Dole: a star surrogate -- Nancy D'Alesssandro Pelosi: tangled-up in stereotypes -- Olympia Snowe: seeking a sensible center -- Christine Gregoire: a competent communicator -- Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius: realizing America's promise -- Linda Lingle: forgotten politico in paradise -- Conclusion: what must a presidential woman be.…”
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Chinese Working-Class Lives : Getting By in Taiwan by Gates, Hill, Gates, Hill

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A foreign kingdom : Mormons and polygamy in American political culture, 1852-1890 / by Talbot, Christine

Table of Contents: “…"That these things might come forth" : early Mormonism and the American Republic -- "We shall then live together as one great family" : Mormonism and the public/private divide -- "More the companion and much less the subordinate" : polygamy and Mormon woman's citizenship -- "The utter destruction of the home circle" : polygamy and the perversion of the private sphere -- "They can not exist in contact with republican institutions" : consent, contract, and citizenship under "polygamic theocracy" -- "The foulest ulcer on the body of our nation" : race, class, and contagion in anti-Mormon literature -- "Suffer a surrender--? …”
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Rewriting Womanhood Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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Rewriting Womanhood : Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement / by Collins, Lucy, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography…”
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Sisters in Science : Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science /

Table of Contents: “…Jordan : an unlikely scientist -- Shelia McClure : a woman's place -- Etheleen McGinnis-Hill : it's a good thing -- Jennie R. …”
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Chadian Sister Engages Kansas City Youth about Peace and Justice / by Londadjim, Nelkem Jeannette

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The Robertsons, the Sutherlands, and the making of Texas by Sutherland, Anne H.

Table of Contents: “…Discovering my Texas identity -- Writing as a tradition -- The Robertson papers -- Learning Texas history -- Sterling Clack Robertson, empresario -- The Alabama settlement -- The prayer on the Sabine -- Making a living -- The Comanche, Karankawa, Lipan Apache, and Tonkawa -- Political rumblings in the Alabama settlement -- The Alabama settlement at war -- The Texas revolution as myth and identity ritual -- Aftermath of the war : tragedy and humor -- Getting rid of wildness -- The wild woman of the Navidad -- The civilizing elites : Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson -- The end of slavery -- Remember who you are -- The macaroni road comes to Edna -- The migration to Uvalde -- Getting an education -- Family reunions.…”
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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.…”
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Being Janana Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India. by Nagar, Ila

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on translation, pronouns, and names; 1 Introduction: entering the world of jananas; 2 Janana stories: living as a janana; 3 Jananas and hijras: perpetual conflict and attraction; 4 The janana community of practice: how the janana world works; 5 Negotiating identity through varying gender marking; 6 To feel like a woman: violence and the formation of the janana subject; 7 Janana subalterns; Epilogue; Appendix 1: rules of gender agreement in Hindi; Glossary; Index…”
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Wise and foolish virgins white women at work in the feminized world of primary school teaching / by Galman, Sally Campbell

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction and Reader's Guide -- Section I -- Chapter 1: The Windy Side of Care -- Chapter 2: No other but a Woman's Reason -- Section II -- Chapter 3: Seeking to Understand: Methods of Inquiry -- Chapter 4: The Moral Careers of Wives, Mothers and Others -- Chapter 5: Divining the Hand of Destiny -- Chapter 6: Planning for Temporary Experience and Other Horizons -- Section III -- Chapter 7: For Goodness Sake, Consider What You Do -- Chapter 8: Sweet are the Uses of Adversity -- Conclusion: Boldness, Be My Friend -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette / by Southworth, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the bluestocking and the schoolgirl -- A dense network of friends -- "Ces deux opiniâtres amies" : reading Colette's Le pur et l'impur as a response to Woolf's A room of one's own -- In pursuit of Woolf's 'woman's sentence' in Colette's La vagabonde, Duo, and Le toutounier -- Fathers in the first fictions of Woolf and Colette -- Reading across the Channel : the reception of Woolf's and Colette's work in England and in France -- A dining room of one's own : Woolf and Colette on food and sex -- Appendix 1. …”
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Women, guerrillas, and love understanding war in Central America / by Rodríguez, Ileana

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