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Composition Studies As A Creative Art /
Published 1998Table 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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Keep on fighting : the life and civil rights legacy of Marian A. Spencer /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Becoming a citizen activist -- Cincinnati, another world -- The University of Cincinnati -- A lifetime partner -- Marriage, family, and the YWCA -- Homeownership, new part-time job -- Woman's city club and fellowship house -- Part III. …”
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903
Literary Identification from Charlotte Bronte to Tsitsi Dangarembga /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Coming together : George Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. George Eliot : dark woman, dutiful daughter ; Simone de Beauvoir : my freedom, her death ; Tsitsi Dangarembga : school stories -- 3. …”
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Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content…”
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Insult to injury libel, slander, and invasions of privacy /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…sorry, wrong number -- Blackmail, treason, hypocrisy and lies -- La Cosa Nostra at your service -- The greatest analyst who ever lived -- Five scientists who were paid to lie -- The airman who almost fell to earth -- Actual malice at issue -- The losing game -- Bring in da plea bring in da writ -- Possible pitfalls -- Paths not taken -- The right to privacy -- Genius, hero, maverick, threat -- The man who would be woman -- Paparazzi -- Intrusions on private domains -- Broken promises -- Deception and subterfuge -- After the Pentagon papers -- The adventures of artemus jones -- Justice a la Corrigan -- The impact of the Internet -- Concluding observations.…”
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906
Be good, sweet maid the trials of Dorothy Joudrie /
Published 1999An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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907
Heart attack! advice for patients by patients /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…/ -- Sonny Adams 94 -- 11 Myth: You Are Lucky to Be a Woman / Joy Sing 102 -- 12 Risk Factors from a Patient's Perspective / -- Jerry Fox 112 -- Part III The Health Professionals' Perspetives -- 13 The Complexities of Proper Nutrition / -- Christopher Gardner 123 -- 14 Testing and Treatment / Francis H. …”
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908
Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Transatlantic Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe and European culture /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Todd -- Stowe and the Byronic heroine / Caroline Franklin -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the Irish national tale / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Nature, magic, and history in Stowe and Scott / Monika Elbert -- The first years of Uncle Tom's cabin in Russia / John MacKay -- Stowe, Gaskell, and the woman reformer / Whitney Womack Smith -- Stowe, Eliot, and the reform aesthetic / Clare Cotugno -- Sunny memories and serious proposals / Donals Ross -- The construction of self in Sunny memories / Shirley Foster -- Art and the body in Agnes of Sorrento / Gail K. …”
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Let spirit speak! cultural journeys through the African diaspora /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Aldana -- Ancestry, art, and commodity / Heather Shirey -- A prescription for wholeness / Ashley David -- Selections from kohnjehr woman / Ana Lara -- Poems / Lauren K. Alleyne -- Caribbean spaces, transatlantic spirit / Tzarina T. …”
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911
Shaw and feminisms on stage and off /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Shutting out mother: Vivie Warren as the new woman / Ann Wilson -- 4. The politics of Shaw's Irish women in John Bull's other island / Brad Kent -- Part II. …”
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A poet's revolution the life of Denise Levertov /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…"Revolution or death": living in the movement (1966-1970); "The freeing of the dust": the revolution hits home (1970-1974) -- Sleepers awake (1975-1988). "A woman alone": beginning again (1975-1981); "Writing in the dark": social protest and liberation theology (1982-1988) -- Resettling (1989-1997). …”
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Ronnie Gilbert : a radical life in song /
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Shakespeare re-dressed cross-gender casting in contemporary performance /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Mazer -- Unaccommodated woman: Mabou Mines' Lear, the universal, and the particular in performance / P.A. …”
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Severe domestic squalor
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History /
Published 1995Table of Contents: “…Pioneering Women: Wives and Mothers, 1796-1830 -- 2. Defining Woman's Sphere: Women's Work, Religion, and Reform, 1830-1865 -- 3. …”
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Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Sounding Like a No No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post Soul Era /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Introduction : eccentric performance and embodied music in the post-soul moment -- Becoming post-soul : Eartha Kitt, the Stranger, and the melancholy pleasures of racial reinvention -- Stevie Wonder's "Quare" teachings and cross-species collaboration in Journey through the secret life of plants and other songs -- "Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictions" : P-Funk's black masculinity and the performance of imaginative freedom -- Michael Jackson, queer world making, and the trans erotics of voice, gender, and age -- "Feeling like a woman, looking like a man, sounding like a no-no" : Grace Jones and the performance of "Strange" in the post-soul moment -- Funking toward the future in Meshell Ndegeocello's The world has made me the man of my dreams -- Epilogue : Janelle Monáe's collective vision.…”
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Sounding Like a No-No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Eccentric performance and embodied music in the post-soul moment -- Becoming post-soul : Eartha Kitt, the Stranger, and the melancholy pleasures of racial reinvention -- Stevie Wonder's "Quare" teachings and cross-species collaboration in Journey through the secret life of plants and other songs -- "Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictions" : P-Funk's Black masculinity and the performance of imaginative freedom -- Michael Jackson, queer world making, and the trans erotics of voice, gender, and age -- "Feeling like a woman, looking like a man, sounding like a no-no" : Grace Jones and the performance of "Strange" in the post-soul moment -- Funking toward the future in Meshell Ndegeocello's The world has made me the man of my dreams -- Epilogue : Janelle Monáe's collective vision.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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