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Consider the women : a provocative guide to three matriarchs of the Bible /
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" …”
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Unexceptional Women : Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Unexceptional women : female proprietors in Albany, 1830-85 -- Female microentrepreneurs : linking stories and statistics -- Doing business : patterns and parameters -- Micronetworks and the family business economy -- Business or labor? …”
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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Making space for debating women -- "The first girls' debating club": creating a legacy at Oberlin College, 1835-1935 -- "Women of infinite variety": the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society as an intergenerational argument culture, 1865-1935 -- "Britain's brainy beauties": intercultural encounter on the 1928 British women's debate tour of the United States -- "Your gown is lovely, but -- " : negotiating citizenship at Pennsylvania state colleges, 1928-1945 -- Moving forward with debating women.…”
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Painting Women : Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter One. Painting Women: Spectacle and Subjectivity -- Chapter Two. …”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel /
Published 1990Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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At War with Women : Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Doctrinal Turning Points in the New Imperial Wars -- The "Social Work" of War : Techniques and Struggles to Remake Military Labor -- Colonial "Lessons Learned" : The Contemporary Soldier Becomes the Historical Colonizer -- Soothing Occupation : Gender and the Strategic Deployment of Emotional Labor -- A New Imperial Feminism : Color-Blind Racism and the Special Operation of Women's Rights.…”
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History /
Published 1995Table of Contents: “…1. 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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Women and the Press : The Struggle for Equality /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…"Are not women born as free as men?" -- The rise of the professional writer -- The legacy of reform -- The strains on sisterhood -- Domesticity and all its imperatives -- Negotiating the newsroom -- Negotiating the nation -- Finding a place -- The second wave -- Making a difference.…”
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Women in development : a creative role denied?.
Published 1985Subjects: “…Women --Tanzania--Social condition.…”
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Women at work : people, poverty & potential
Published 1990Subjects: “…Women in the conservation of natural resources -Kenya-Machakos district.…”
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Women in society : United States of America /
Published 1994Subjects: “…Women United States.…”
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