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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Sex & money feminism and political economy in the media /

Table of Contents: “…Leslie Steeves and Janet Wasko -- Something old, something new : lingering moments in the unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism / Lisa McLaughlin -- An un-suitable technology for a woman? : communication as circulation / Michèle Martin -- The invisibility of the everyday : new technology and women's work / Ellen Balka -- The political economy of women's employment in the information sector / Stana Martin -- Sexual harassment as an economic concern : Swedish and American coverage of Astra / Nancy Hauserman -- Single moms, quota queens, and the model majority : putting "women" to work in the California Civil Rights Initiative / Roopali Mukherjee -- Selling women (down the river) : gendered relations and the political economy of broadcast news / Karen Ross -- Gender and the political economy of newsmaking : a case study of human rights coverage / Carolyn M. …”
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Identity in the shadow of slavery

Table of Contents: “…Beckles -- Those who remained behind : women slaves in nineteenth-century Yorubaland / Francine Shields -- 'She voluntarily hath come' : a Gambian woman trader in colonial Georgia in the eighteenth century / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason.…”
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English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. …”
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Break your own rules how to change the patterns of thinking that block women's paths to power / by Flynn, Jill, 1945-

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The Russian twentieth-century short story a critical companion /

Table of Contents: “…An Analysis of "The Childhood of Luvers" by Boris Pasternak / Fiona Björling -- Andrei Platonov and the Inadmissibility of Desire ("The River Potudan") / Eric Naiman -- "This Could Have Been Foreseen": Kharms's "The Old Woman" (Starukha) Revisited. A Collective Analysis / Robin Milner-Gulland -- Testimony as Art: Varlam Shalamov's "Condensed Milk" / Leona Toker -- The Writer as Criminal: Abram Tertz's "Pkhents" / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy -- Vasilii Shukshin's "Cut Down to Size" (Srezal) and the Question of Transition / Diane Ignashev Nemec -- Carnivalization of the Short Story Genre and the Künstlernovelle: Tatiana Tolstaia's "The Poet and the Muse" / Erica Greber -- Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy / Lyudmila Parts -- "The Lady with the Dogs," by Lyudmila Petrushevskaia / Translated by Krystyna Anna Steiger -- Russian Postmodernist Fiction and Mythologies of History: Viacheslav Pietsukh's "The Central-Ermolaevo War" and Viktor Erofeev's "Parakeet" / Mark Lipovetsky -- Psychosis and Photography: Andrei Bitov's "Pushkin's Photograph" / Sven Spieker -- The "Traditional Postmodernism" of Viktor Pelevin's Short Story "Nika" / Olga Bogdanova.…”
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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar -- Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen -- Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega -- Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. …”
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Season of terror the Espinosas in central Colorado, March/October 1863 / by Price, Charles F., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Tappan takes up the hunt for the Espinosas -- "If this woman is found dead, tell the people the Espinosas of the conejos killed her": the attack on Philbrook and Dolores Sønches -- "I drew his head back over a fallen tree and cut it off": Tom Tobin ends the terror -- "The brightest success rewarded them for their toils": Tobin brings in the heads -- "Who is there to gather the history of this wretch?"…”
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Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias / by Germeten, Nicole von

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Madame Wu Chien-Shiung : the first lady of physics research / by Tsai-Chien, Chiang

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Reborn of crisis : 9/11 and the resurgent superhero / by Hagley, Annika, 1983-, Harrison, Michael, 1975-

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Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law / by Pattinson, Shaun D.

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Narkomania : Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine / by Carroll, Jennifer J., 1981-

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Sappho: Fragments by Goldberg, Jonathan

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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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The practice of U.S. women's history narratives, intersections, and dialogues /

Table of Contents: “…Ruiz -- African American women and migration / Leslie Brown -- Morena/o, blanca/o, y café con leche : racial constructions in Chicana/o historiography / Vicki L. Ruiz -- The woman suffrage movement, 1848-1920 / Elizabeth J. …”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Kirkland -- The sins of the mothers and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's covert alliance with Catharine Beecher / Monika Elbert -- Gilman's The crux and Owen Wister's The Virginian : intertextuality and "woman's manifest destiny / Jennifer S. Tuttle -- Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich -- From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. …”
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