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Little strangers portrayals of adoption and foster care in America, 1850-1929 / by Nelson, Claudia

Table of Contents: “…The 1850s and their echoes : two case studies -- Money talks : the displaced child, 1860-1885 -- Melodrama and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Metaphor and the displaced child, 1886-1906 -- Adoption and women, 1907-1918 -- Adoption up to date : the rhetoric of mass individuality, 1919-1929.…”
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Empire in Africa Angola and its neighbors / by Birmingham, David

Table of Contents: “…The idea of empire -- Wine, women, and war -- Merchants and missionaries -- A Swiss community in highland Angola -- The case of Belgium and Portugal -- Race and class in a "fascist" colony -- The death throes of empire -- Destabilizing the neighborhood -- Carnival at Luanda -- The struggle for power -- A journey through Angola.…”
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Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / by Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Marginalization of Women in Obstetrics -- 4. Saintly and Satanic Obstetricians -- Appendix Creative Etymology: "Caesarean Section" from Pliny to Rousset -- Annotated List of Illustrations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Between self and society : inner worlds and outer limits in the British psychological novel / by Rodden, John

Table of Contents: “…Smollett's Roderick Random : in love with Narcissa -- Godwin's Caleb Williams : "A half-told and mangled tale" -- Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge : the infernal triangle -- Ford's The good soldier : movements of the heart -- Lewis's Tarr : portraits of the failed artist -- Lawrence's Women in love : the role of miss "Dawington".…”
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Improving people's lives : lessons in empowerment from Asia /

Table of Contents: “…The rural support programme: empowering the rural poor in Pakistan / Ali Dastgeer -- The women crisis centre of Penang / Siti Hawa Ali -- The Satyodaya Centre: empowering Tamil estate workers in Sri Lanka / Muthuvadivoo Sinnathamby -- The experience of Sahayi: capacity building for sustainable development / Gregory Placid.…”

Baptists in America by Leonard, Bill

Table of Contents: “…Baptist beginnings -- Baptists in the twentieth century -- Baptist beliefs and practices -- Baptist groups : denominations, subdenominations, and churches -- Bible, ordinances, and polity : debates and divisions -- Baptists and religious liberty : citizenship and freedom -- Ethnicity and race in Baptist churches -- Women in Baptist life -- Baptists and American culture : in the world but not of it.…”
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Holy harlots femininity, sexuality, and black magic in Brazil / by Hayes, Kelly E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Wicked women and femmes fatales -- Pomba Gira and the religious imagination -- Life on the margins -- Sexuality, morality, and the logic of gender -- Becoming a zelador -- Spiritual defenders and protectors -- Maria Molambo's revenge -- If God is all good, then only the devil can combat evil -- Balancing human and spirit worlds.…”
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Learning to be old gender, culture, and aging / by Cruikshank, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Cultural myths and aging -- Fear of an aging population -- Sickness and other social roles of old people -- Overmedicating old Americans -- Healthy physical aging -- The politics of healthy aging -- Class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender -- Ageism -- Countercultural gerontology -- A feminist's view of gerontology and women's aging.…”
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GnRH agonist use for fertility preservation despite gonadotoxic chemotherapy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Preservation of fertility in women undergoing gonadotoxic chemotx. -- Methods of fertility preservation -- The rationale of ovarian suppression by GnRHa for fertility preservation -- The efficacy of GnRHa -- The safety of GnRHa -- The GnRHa debate (why?) …”
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GnRH agonist use for fertility preservation despite gonadotoxic chemotherapy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Preservation of fertility in women undergoing gonadotoxic chemotx. -- Methods of fertility preservation -- The rationale of ovarian suppression by GnRHa for fertility preservation -- The efficacy of GnRHa -- The safety of GnRHa -- The GnRHa debate (why?) …”
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The literature of jealousy in the age of Cervantes by Wagschal, Steven, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Jealousy and epistemology in Lope de Vega's "Honor plays" -- Women, jealousy, and power -- Representing dramatic jealousy : from comic to tragic -- Religion, race, and ethnicity in Cervantes's Jealous old man from Extremadura -- Cervantes's virtuous jealousy -- Myth and the fractured "I" in Góngora -- Góngora on the beautiful and the sublime.…”
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The Philadelphia Mummers building community through play / by Masters, Patricia Anne, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…From play to play community : the early years of the Mummers parade -- Expanding the play community : the contemporary parade -- Blacks, women, and the "new" immigrants : the Mummers and diversity -- "Going up the street" : the experience of the parade -- Rituals and the play community -- Family, club, and neighborhood -- The experience of play -- The Mummers past and future.…”
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GnRH agonist use for fertility preservation despite gonadotoxic chemotherapy

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Preservation of fertility in women undergoing gonadotoxic chemotx. -- Methods of fertility preservation -- The rationale of ovarian suppression by GnRHa for fertility preservation -- The efficacy of GnRHa -- The safety of GnRHa -- The GnRHa debate (why?) …”
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Serenity found more unauthorized essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly universe /

Table of Contents: “…Catching up with the future / Orson Scott Card -- Mars needs women / Maggie Burns -- Girls, guns, gags / Natalie Haynes -- River Tam and the weaponized women of the Whedonverse / Michael Marano -- I, Malcolm / Nathan Fillion -- Freedom in an unfree world / P. …”
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Borderline Americans racial division and labor war in the Arizona borderlands / by Benton-Cohen, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…A shared world in Tres Alamos -- Race and conflict in tombstone -- The white man's camp in Bisbee -- "A better man for us" in Warren -- Mormons and Mexicans in the San Pedro River Valley -- Women and men in the Sulphur Springs and San Simon Valleys -- The Bisbee deportation -- One country, two races.…”
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Utopias of otherness nationhood and subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil / by Arenas, Fernando, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Portugal : ideas of empire and nationhood -- Brazilian national identity : intellectual debates and changing cultural realities -- Subjectivities and homoerotic desire in contemporary Brazilian fiction : the nation of Caio Fernando Abreu -- Women's difference in contemporary Portuguese fiction : the case of Maria Isabel Barreno -- Worlds in transition and utopias of otherness.…”
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Romance and readership in twentieth century France by Holmes, Diana, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…A feminine genre, romance and women -- Passion, piety, and the new woman: romantic fiction at the Belle Epoque -- Reaction and resistance, romance in the 1930's and under the Occupation -- Love in a brave new world, romance in the 1950's -- Romance after feminism -- Love in a postmodern age, contemporary romance in France.…”
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Singing in my soul black gospel music in a secular age / by Jackson, Jerma A.

Table of Contents: “…Restraint or exuberance : music and religion after Reconstruction -- I just do what the Lord say : gospel as women's missionary work -- Choirs, studios, and unions : the grassroots campaign for gospel -- With her spirituals in swing : Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel, and popular culture -- Between religion and commerce : gospel in the postwar era.…”
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Underground codes race, crime, and related fires / by Russell-Brown, Katheryn, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- Policing communities, policing race -- Black protectionism -- In the crosshairs : racial profiling and living while Black -- Black women and the justice system : raced and gendered into submission -- Race facts.…”
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Too beautiful to picture Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / by Mansfield, Elizabeth, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Myth and Mimesis in western art history -- Art history as myth -- The Zeuxis myth -- Myth and Mimesis in the Renaissance -- Painting (like) Zeuxis -- Zeuxis in the academy -- Women artists and the Zeuxis myth -- Painting in the philosophical brothel -- Zeuxis in the operating room: Orlan's carnal art -- Conclusion: Zeuxis selecting models and the cultural unconscious.…”
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