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Authorship in film adaptation

Table of Contents: “…Tomasulo -- From obtrusive narration to crosscutting : adapting the doubleness of John Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman / R. Barton Palmer -- The three faces of Lolita, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the adaptation / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Traffic/Traffik : race, globalization, and family in Soderbergh's remake / Mark Gallagher -- Adapting Nick Hornby's High fidelity : process and sexual politics / Cynthia Lucia -- Adaptable Bridget : generic intertextuality and postfeminism in Bridget Jones's diary / Shelley Cobb -- "Who's your favorite Indian?" …”
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Landmark speeches of National Socialism

Table of Contents: “…The magic force of the spoken word -- Adolf Hitler : reestablishing the National Socialist German Workers Party, 27 February 1925 -- Joseph Goebbels : "the storm is coming," 9 July 1932 -- Joseph Goebbels : propaganda and public enlightenment, 6 September 1934 -- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink : duties and tasks of the woman in the National Socialist state, October 1936 -- Gerhard Wagner : race and population policy, 11 September 1936 -- Joseph Goebbels : "our Hitler," 19 April 1937 -- Julius Streicher : speech after "The night of broken glass," 10 November 1938 -- Adolf Hitler : to the old guard in Munich, 8 November 1941-- Joseph Goebbels : "total war," 18 February 1943 -- Model speeches for Nazi leaders, 1944-1945 -- Adolf Hitler : Adolf Hitler's last speech, 30 January 1945.…”
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Martha Grimes walks into a pub essays on a writer with a load of mischief /

Table of Contents: “…Marchino -- The significance of place / Mary Alice Money -- "A play for us all": Medea and the Spirit Lake novels / Amy Hausser -- Identity, simulacra, and the hyperreal: detectives, murders, and victims / Rhonda Knight -- The woman's way: gender and fictional style / Nancy Eliot Parker -- Humor, murder and the ludicrous in human behavior / Mimosa Stephenson -- Fear of commitment: Richard Jury, Melrose Plant, and women / Sherry Ginn -- Emma Graham, detective quest hero / Sarah D. …”
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The religious history of American women reimagining the past /

Table of Contents: “…Butler - Women's popular literature as theological discourse: a Mormon case study, 1880-1920 / Susanna Morrill - The "new woman" at the "university": gender and American Catholic identity in the Progressive Era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings - Faith, Feminism and history / Ann Braude - "Are you the white sisters or the black sisters?"…”
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Through alien eyes a view of America and intercultural marriages / by Popova, Elena, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…, or images of Russians -- Demons she fights : the adjustment period -- The show must go on -- Watch you language -- To execute or to pardon? -- A woman at the door -- The competition of congregations, or which Christian is more of a Christian? …”
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Rethinking Indian political institutions

Table of Contents: “…The politics of economic reforms in India : a review of the literature / Jos Mooji -- The temptations of presidentialism : an explanation of the evolving political strategy of the BJP / Sanjay Ruparelia -- Ideological integration in post-colonial (South) India : aspects of a political language / Pamela Price -- The fight for turf and the crisis of ideology : broadcasting reform and media distribution networks in India / Veena Naregal -- Land use in Bombay : institutional effects and political outcomes / Bhavana Padiyath -- Understanding local politics, democracy, and civil society : environmental governance in urban India / Bharat Dahiya -- Political institutions, strategies of governance, and forms of resistance in rural market towns of contemporary Bengal : a study of Bolpur Municipality / Subho Basu -- Autonomy, political literacy, and the 'social woman' : towards a politics of inclusion / Sumi Madhok -- The development of panchayati raj / Crispin Bates -- Political representation and women's empowerment : women in the institutions of local self-government in Orissa / Evelin Hust.…”
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Reading for the law British literary history and gender advocacy / by Krueger, Christine L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.…”
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Composition studies as a creative art teaching, writing, scholarship, administration / by Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? …”
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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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Juju fission women's alternative fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the oases in-between / by Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo

Table of Contents: “…Serendipitous discoveries: the subaltern speaks, African women's writing; -- Voicing from Zimbabwe to Algeria: the office and science of juju -- The state of the African union address: a juju ambiance, the tete-a-tete, and the mimetic -- What the fairy godmother said to the prince: Bessie Head's Maru -- Rumble from the womb of the prison: Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- The mouth unbound: a thousand and one African days and nights: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy or Reflections from a black-eyed squint and Changes -- Talking sister, silenced subaltern: Assia Djebar's A sister to Scheherazade -- "Lunatic writing"; the speaking space between the present and the future: Calixthe Beyala's The sun hath looked upon me -- Echoes of a recent past: Yvonne Vera's Nehanda.…”
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Acting for America movie stars of the 1980s /

Table of Contents: “…Fox and the Brat Pack: contrasting identities / Robert Eberwein -- Eddie Murphy: the rise and fall of the golden child / Krin Gabbard -- Sigourney Weaver : woman warrior, working girl / Chris Holmlund -- Harrison Ford: a well-tempered machismo / Adam Knee -- Sally FIeld and Goldie Hawn: feminism, post-feminism, and cactus flower politics / Christina Lane -- Meryl Streep: feminism and femininity in the era of backlash / Linda Mizejewski -- Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis: enforcers left and right / James Morrison -- Steve Martin and John Candy: penny wise and pound foolish / Jerry Mosher -- In the wings / Robert Eberwein.…”
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Remembering the crusades myth, image, and identity /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : crusading and the work of memory, past and present / Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager -- Cities of memory in the travels of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta / Christine Chism -- Constructing memories of martyrdom : contrasting portrayals of martyrdom in the Hebrew narratives of the first and second crusade / Chaviva Levin -- Lambert of Saint-Omer and the apocalyptic first crusade / Jay Rubenstein -- Remembering the crusades in the fabric of buildings : preliminary thoughts about alternating voussoirs / Jerrilynn Dodds -- Picturing the first crusade and commemorating the fall of Jerusalem / Jaroslav Folda -- Erasing the body : history and memory in medieval siege poetry / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- The servile mother : Jerusalem as woman in the era of the crusades / David Morris -- Saladin in the Sunni and Shi'a memories / Mohamed El-Moctar -- Paul the Martyr and Venetian memories of the fourth crusade / David Perry -- Aspects of hospitaller and templar memory / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- Visual self-fashioning and the seals of the knights hospitaller in England / Laura Whatley.…”
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Brenda is in the room & other poems / by Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…A history of light -- My embodiment -- Before the sea was molten -- Like a pebble in space is like a planet -- I am a woman's lover -- 5. Poem to read at my wedding.…”
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Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England Ravenous Natures / by Skuse, Alanna

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British women surgeons and their patients, 1860 -1918 / by Brock, Claire, 1977-

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Consumer behavior women and shopping / by Huddleston, Patricia

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Literary celebrity, gender, and Victorian authorship, 1850-1914 by Easley, Alexis, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The virtual city: literary tourism and the construction of "Dickens's London"; the haunting of Victorian London: Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and George Eliot; the woman of letters at home: Harriet Martineau and the Lake District -- Part II: Celebrity and historiography. …”
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Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy /

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The End of Man / by Martinon, Jean-Paul

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Eminent Maricones : Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me / by Manrique, Jaime, 1949-

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