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The powerful ephemeral everyday healing in an ambiguously Islamic place / by Bellamy, Carla, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Ambiguity: Hụsain Tẹkrī and Indian dargāh c̣ulture -- Place: the making of a pilgrimage and a pilgrimage center -- People: the tale of the four virtuous women -- Absence: lobān, volunteerism, and abundance -- Presence: the work and the workings of hạ̄zịrī -- Personae: transgression, otherness, cosmopolitanism, and kinship -- Conclusion: The powerful ephemeral: dargāh c̣ulture in contemporary India.…”
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Men of capital : scarcity and economy in mandate Palestine / by Seikaly, Sherene, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the politics of basic needs -- Men of capital : making money, making nation -- Women of thrift : domesticity and home economics -- A nutritional economy : the calorie, development, and war -- A public good : Palestinian businessmen and World War II -- The vegetable racket : scarcity and the cost of living -- Conclusion : postwar austerity and the discipline of detail.…”
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The developing world : critical issues in politics and society /

Table of Contents: “…Liberal democratization and democracy -- Law enforcement issues -- Human rights constraints -- Gender marginalization: a discourse on the status of women in South Asia and how it might be tackled -- Mexican political development and its influence on Central America -- The politics of development and protection of the environment -- Boosting access to computer technology as a way of improving education.…”
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Native Americans and the Christian Right : The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances / by Smith, Andrea, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why rearticulation matters -- Set the prisoners free : the Christian right and the prison industrial complex -- "The one who did not break his promises" : Native nationalisms and the Christian right -- "Without apology" : Native American and evangelical feminisms -- Unlikely allies : rethinking coalition politics -- Native women and sovereignty : beyond the nation-state.…”
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The sacred gaze religious visual culture in theory and practice / by Morgan, David, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Questions and definitions -- Defining visual culture -- Visual practice and the function of images -- The covenant with images -- Images between cultures -- The violence of seeing : idolatry and iconoclasm -- The circulation of images in mission history -- The social life of pictures -- Engendering vision : absent fathers and women with beards -- National icons : Bibles, flags, and Jesus in American civil religion.…”
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Shrinking violets and Caspar Milquetoasts shyness, power, and intimacy in the United States, 1950-1995 / by McDaniel, Patricia (Patricia A.)

Table of Contents: “…The emotional culture of shyness from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century -- "Build him a dais" : shyness and heterosexuality from the roles of the fifties to the rules of the nineties -- Assertive women and timid men? : race, heterosexuality, and shyness -- Shyness from nine to five -- "Intimacy is a difficult art" : the changing role of shyness in friendship.…”
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In quest of Indian folktales Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke / by Naithani, Sadhana

Table of Contents: “…Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke -- The golden manuscripts -- Crooke, Chaube, and colonial folkloristics, 1868-1914 -- Post-colonial conclusions -- Colors of life : tales 1 to 87 -- So wise some women are : tales 88 to 103 -- Magical mind : tales 104 to 125 -- Corrective measures : tales 126 to 158.…”
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Telling the little secrets American Jewish writing since the 1980s / by Burstein, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.…”
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Economic citizens a narrative of Asian American visibility / by So, Christine, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The promise of exchange : production, circulation, and consumption within Chinatown ethnographies -- The universality of exchange : Japanese American travel narratives and the emergence of the global citizen -- The embodiment of exchange : Asian mail-order brides, the threat of global capitalism, and the rescue of the U.S. nation-state -- The logic of exchange : ordering the chaos of twentieth-century Chinese women's history.…”
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Reporting from Washington the history of the Washington press corps / by Ritchie, Donald A., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The news bureaus and the New Deal -- Race, rules, and reporting -- Radio voices -- The friends of Joe McCarthy -- News center of the world -- Flash : the wire services -- The business of being opinionated -- Off the women's page -- The camera's eye -- Washington, deceit -- Company town papers -- Anyone with a modem -- Washington, D.C., 2001.…”
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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / by Diggins, John P.

Table of Contents: “…-- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.…”
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Native Americans and the Christian Right : The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances / by Smith, Andrea, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why rearticulation matters -- Set the prisoners free : the Christian right and the prison industrial complex -- "The one who did not break his promises" : Native nationalisms and the Christian right -- "Without apology" : Native American and evangelical feminisms -- Unlikely allies : rethinking coalition politics -- Native women and sovereignty : beyond the nation-state.…”
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Rethinking Indian political institutions

Table of Contents: “…The politics of economic reforms in India : a review of the literature / Jos Mooji -- The temptations of presidentialism : an explanation of the evolving political strategy of the BJP / Sanjay Ruparelia -- Ideological integration in post-colonial (South) India : aspects of a political language / Pamela Price -- The fight for turf and the crisis of ideology : broadcasting reform and media distribution networks in India / Veena Naregal -- Land use in Bombay : institutional effects and political outcomes / Bhavana Padiyath -- Understanding local politics, democracy, and civil society : environmental governance in urban India / Bharat Dahiya -- Political institutions, strategies of governance, and forms of resistance in rural market towns of contemporary Bengal : a study of Bolpur Municipality / Subho Basu -- Autonomy, political literacy, and the 'social woman' : towards a politics of inclusion / Sumi Madhok -- The development of panchayati raj / Crispin Bates -- Political representation and women's empowerment : women in the institutions of local self-government in Orissa / Evelin Hust.…”
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Liminal borderlands in Irish literature and culture

Table of Contents: “…Einarsson -- Caught in the liminal: Dorothy Cross's Udder series and Marina Carr's By the bog of cats / Risn O'Gorman -- Transformative spaces in contemporary Irish women's poetry. Identity as becoming: polymorphic female identities in contemporary Irish women's poetry / Katarzyna Poloczek -- Land [. . .] to reclaim?…”
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The embodiment of leadership

Table of Contents: “…The anatomy of leadership / Stephanie Guastella Lindsay -- Dramatic leadership : Dorothy Heathcote's autopoietic, or embodied leadership model / Kate Katafiasz -- Leadership in the time of liminality : a framework for leadership in an era of deep transformation / David Holzmer -- Seeking alignment in the world body : the art of embodiment / Skye Burn -- (De/re)constructing leading bodies : developing critical attitudes and somaesthetic practices / Maylon Hanold -- Dollmaking as an expression of women's leadership / Kimberly Yost -- Leadership embodiment and resistance : the complex journey of Latin American pentecostal women pastors / Nora Mendez and Fernando Mora -- Michelle Obama's embodied authentic leadership : leading by lifestyle / Elizabeth D. …”
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Feeling Gender A Generational and Psychosocial Approach / by Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum

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Political Rhetoric and the Media : The Year in C-SPAN Research, Volume 8 by Browning, Robert X.

Table of Contents: “…CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HEARINGS AS PUBLIC SPECTACLE -- 7. STRONG MEN, CARING WOMEN? HOW GENDER SHAPES EMOTIONAL POLITICAL RHETORIC -- 8. …”
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Slavery & South Asian history

Table of Contents: “…Fisher -- Bharattee's death : domestic slave-women in nineteenth-century Madras / Sylvia Vatuk -- Slaves or soldiers? …”
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Political Rhetoric and the Media : The Year in C-SPAN Research, Volume 8 by Browning, Robert X.

Table of Contents: “…CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HEARINGS AS PUBLIC SPECTACLE -- 7. STRONG MEN, CARING WOMEN? HOW GENDER SHAPES EMOTIONAL POLITICAL RHETORIC -- 8. …”
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Cancer disparities causes and evidence-based solutions /

Table of Contents: “…Partnering with safety-net primary care clinics : a model to enhance screening in low income populations : principles, challenges, and key lessons / Samantha Hendren, Sharon Humiston, and Kevin Fiscella -- Esperanza y vida : familias saludables empiezan con mujeres saludables (hope and life : health families begin with healthy women) / Deborah O. Erwin ... [et al.] -- A decision support intervention for black women eligible for adjuvant systemic therapy : sisters informing sisters about breast cancer treatment : an intervention to reduce treatment disparities / Vanessa B. …”
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