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Derrida and Queer Theory /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Impossible uncanniness: deconstruction and queer theory / Nicolas Royle -- No kingdom of the queer / Calvin Thomas -- Derrida and the question of "woman" / Sarah Dillon -- Les chats de Derrida / Carla Freccero. -- Derrida's queer root(s) / Jarrod Hayes -- Deco-pervo-struction / Eamonn Dunne -- A man for all seasons: Derrida-cum-"queer theory," or The limits of "performativity" / Alexander Garcia Duttmann -- "Practical deconstruction": a note on some notes by Judith Butler / Martin McQuillan -- Performing friendship / Linnell Secomb -- Postface: Just queer / Geoffrey B ennington -- Appendix: Supreme Court (1988) . …”
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Gender, religion and change in the Middle East two hundred years of history /

Table of Contents: “…George's school in Jerusalem, c. 1900-40 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug -- Women students at the American University of Beirut from the 1920s-1940s / Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski -- Women's voluntary social welfare organizations in Egypt / Beth Baron -- Nineteenth-century Protestant missions and Middle Eastern women : an overview / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- The paradox of the new Islamic woman in Turkey / Jenny B. White -- Visions of Mary in the Middle East : gender and the power of a symbol / Willy Jansen -- An army of women learning Torah / Leah Shakdiel -- Stones and stories : engaging with gender and complex emergencies / Nefissa Naguib -- Tradition and change : Afghan women in an era of war and displacement / Karin Ask -- Vows, mediumship and gender : women's votive meals in Iran / Azam Torab.…”
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Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

Table of Contents: “…Johansen -- "Ain't I a woman too?" : challenging myths of sexual dysfunction in circumcised women / Fuambai Ahmadu -- The failure of pluralism? …”
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The psychology of superheroes an unauthorized exploration /

Table of Contents: “…Ickes -- An appetite for destruction / Chuck Tate -- The stereotypical (Wonder) woman / Chuck Tate -- What would Freud say? / Andrew R. …”
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Caribbean autobiography cultural identity and self-representation / by Paquet, Sandra Pouchet

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ADVOCACY -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune Dispatches and the -- Nineteenth-Century Body Politic 23 -- Annamaria Formichella Elsden -- Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: -- Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home -- Prescriptions for Women's Writing 45 -- Sarah Robbins -- Parental Guidance: Disciplinary Intimacy and the -- Rise of Women's Regionalism 66 -- Janet GebhartAuten -- Kate Chopin and the Periodical: Revisiting the Re-Vision 78 -- Bonnie James Shaker --GENDER ROLES, SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS, AND THE WOMAN WRITER -- The Heroine of Her Own Story: Subversion of Traditional -- Periodical Marriage Tropes in the Short Fiction of Charlotte -- Perkins Gilman's Forerunner 95 -- Aleta Feinsod Cane -- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the -- Little Magazine Impulse in Modern America 113 -- Craig Monk -- "An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That Was Art": -- Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical 126 -- Michele L. …”
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August Wilson completing the twentieth-century cycle /

Table of Contents: “…Pease -- If we must die: violence as history lesson in Seven guitars and King Hedley II / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- You can't make life happen without a woman: paternity and the pitfalls of structural design in King Hedley II and Seven guitars / Herman Beavers -- Turn your lamp down low! …”
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Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / by Ishida, Yoriko

Table of Contents: “…-- Historical context of the Sally Hemings story: racial prejudice in the United States of America disclosed by the Jefferson-Hemings scandal -- Figurations of the female body as gothic technique: race relations and gender conventions in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings -- Pampered body, outraged flesh: the ambivalence of Sally Hemings in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings as a neo-slave narrative -- Tradition of the tragic mulatta in the antebellum South: the Sally Hemings story and William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The president's daughter -- Miscegenation, passing, and the tragic mulatta in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter: racial politics of the nineteenth century in the United States -- Body and soul of Harriet Hemings as a Hemings woman: gender representation in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter -- Thomas (Hemings) Woodson in the Woodson family oral history: the bonds, pride, and identity of the Woodson family in Minnie Shumate Woodson's The sable curtain -- Epilogue: with love and respect for Sally Hemings and her descendents.…”
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Too bold for the box office the mockumentary from big screen to small /

Table of Contents: “…Making up Mammy: Re-enacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman / Eve Allegra Raimon -- Peter Delpeut's The Forbidden Quest: Truth in Fiction / Robert Weiner -- Mercury's on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac's on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program / Cynthia J. …”
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Elizabeth Gaskell and the art of the short story

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the boundaries in Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction / Alan Shelston -- Chains of our own forging : Gaskell and a search for freedom / Ian Campbell -- Tracing the linguistic fingerprints of the unitarian ethos : a corpus-based study of Elizabeth Gskell's short stories / Massimo Verzella -- Elizabeth Gaskell and the crime short story / Mariaconcetta Costantini -- Elizabeth Gaskell's Disappearances : narratives of absence between mystery and empirical detection / Renzo D'Agnillo -- In and out of the Victorian house : the representation of domestic spaces in Gaskell's The grey woman / Anna Enrichetta Soccio -- The cat on her knee : Gaskell's leave-taking / Benedetta Bini -- Interpreting otherness : Elizabeth Gaskell and The crooked branch / Marilena Saracino -- Narrating nineteenth-century dress codes : Elizabeth Gaskell and the desire for a turban / Francesco Marroni -- Illustrating Cranford : George du Maurier and Hugh Thomson / Valentina Polcini -- Filming Gaskell's shorter fiction / Raffaella Antinucci -- Ruth-sick for home : the Keatsian imagination in the novel of Elizabeth Gaskell / Allan C. …”
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Emily D. West and the "Yellow Rose of Texas" myth / by Tucker, Phillip Thomas, 1953-

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Cometh the hour / by Archer, Jeffrey

Little Else Than a Memory : Purdue Students Search for the Class of 1904 /

Table of Contents: “…Lyla Vivian Marshall Harcoff: The Pursuits of a Small-Town DreamerThe Eternal Feminine: An Examination of the Life and Times of the Twentieth-Century New University Woman through Cecil Clare Crane -- The Lost Bandsman and His Band -- Just Harry -- Epilogue: Purdue's Past through Purdue's Present -- Biographical Cameos…”
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Hoein' the Short Rows /

Table of Contents: “…A high toned woman / Joyce Gibson Roach -- The lingo of the Espee / Charlie Oden -- Mechanical macho : the current craze for customizing pickups / Kenneth W. …”
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Seeking inalienable rights Texans and their quests for justice /

Table of Contents: “…Reid -- Fighting on the home front: the rhetoric of woman suffrage in World War I / James Seymour -- Contrasts in neglect: progressive municipal reform in Dallas and San Antonio / Patricia E. …”
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Discovering the South : One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s / by Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn

Table of Contents: “…We so-called free moderns : Raleigh, North Carolina -- This division between faith in democracy and power descending from authority : from Raleigh to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee -- The demand for justice will not be a cause furthered only by radicals : Scottsboro, Alabama -- A quaint and quixotic group of gentlemen : Nashville, Tennessee -- Tenants are able to hold their heads a little higher : Memphis, Tennessee -- Naked and hot as if she were stripped in the sun : Marked Tree, Arkansas -- The most interesting man I met : from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Tuskegee, Alabama -- As furious as the last horseman of a legion of the bitter-end : Birmingham, Alabama -- A red-headed woman immaculate and immediate from the beauty parlor : Atlanta, Georgia -- The newly exciting question of the possibility of democracy : from Atlanta to Raleigh, North Carolina.…”
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Big doctoring in America profiles in primary care / by Mullan, Fitzhugh

Table of Contents: “…Primary care roots -- The new GPs, the family physician comes of age -- Eugene McGregor, M.D., a legacy of general practice -- Connie Adler, M.D., living rural medicine -- Neil Calman, M.D., urban warrior -- Roots rediscovered, the internist and the pediatrician as generalists -- Beach Conger, M.D., caretaker and contrartian -- Linda Headrick, M.D., seeking a common language in primary care -- Selma Deitch, M.D., M.P.H., children first -- The new clinicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants -- Therese Hidalgo, R.N., F.N.P., proud to be a nurse -- Carl Toney, P.A., building a new profession -- Holly Gerlaugh, F.N.P./P.A.-C., a one woman merger -- The system doctors, managed care and primary care -- Sam Ho, M.D., idealist, innovator, entrepreneur -- Sallyann Bowman, M.D., a Philadelphia story -- Gwen Wagstrom Halaas, M.D., M.B.A., evidence based doctoring -- The quixote factor, generalists doing special battle -- William Kapla, M.D., life and death in San Francisco -- Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., ground breaker -- Janelle Goetcheus, M.D., doctor succor -- Building a better future, the case for primary care.…”
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Reading other-wise socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities /

Table of Contents: “…Simopoulos -- Remembering the Bible as a critical "pedagogy of the oppressed" / Janet Lees -- Journeying with Moses toward true solidarity: shifting social and narrative locations of the oppressed and their liberators in Exodus 2-3 / Bob Ekblad -- "How could he ever do that to her?!" or, How the woman who anointed Jesus became a victim of Luke's redactional and theological principles / Monika Ottermann -- Bible and citizenship / Valmor da Silva -- The Bible in British urban theology: an analysis by a Finnish companion / Kari Latvus -- Responses. …”
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The serpent's gift gnostic reflections on the study of religion / by Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Invocation ; The quest for the heretical Jesus ; "One will know them by their roots" ; From the womb ; Sexual healings: dispelling the demons of abuse ; Sexual teachings ; The man Jesus loved ; The woman Jesus loved ; The secret -- Restoring the Adam of light. …”
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The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

Table of Contents: “…McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".…”
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Beyond the threshold explorations of liminality in literature /

Table of Contents: “…: modernism and liminality in Douglas Livingstone's A littoral zone / Etienne Terblanche -- The liminal space between the species in Peter Hoeg's The woman and the ape / Naama Harel -- Journeys from the liminal to the sacred in the interior of South Africa / Hein Viljoen -- Subverting the pastoral : the transcendence of space and place in J.M. …”
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