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Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability Orientations for Contemporary Research /

Table of Contents: “…Following Boserup’s Traces: From Invisibility to Informalisation of Women’s Economy to Engendering Development in Translocal Spaces -- 10. …”
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Writing gender writing self : memory, memoir and autobiography /

Table of Contents: “…(Re)Positioning the 'Other': Perspectives on Marathi Dalit and Black Women Writings 2. What the Text Does not Say: Significant Absence and the Self in Arathi Menon's Leaving Home with Half a Fridge 3. …”
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From slavery to poverty the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918 / by SenGupta, Gunja

Table of Contents: “…Subaltern worlds in antebellum New York -- The white republic and "workfare" : Blackwell's island -- Not white, but worthy : maternalists and the "pious poor" of the colored home -- The color of juvenile justice : the New York House of Refuge -- Celtic sisters, Saxon keepers : class, whiteness, and the women of the Hopper home -- Black voluntarism and American identities : the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School.…”
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Workers, unions, and global capitalism lessons from India / by Hensman, Rohini, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Emancipatory action research into workers' struggles -- Defining globalization -- Four sources of the global crisis of 2008 -- Capital, the state, and trade union rights -- Employees' unions: an experiment in union democracy -- Informal labor: the struggle for legal recognition -- Working women and reproductive labor -- Employment creation and welfare -- International strategies -- Conclusion: toward global solidarity.…”
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Jokes and targets by Davies, Christie

Table of Contents: “…-- Mind over matter: a general theory of jokes about the stupid and the canny -- Blondes, sex, and the French -- Jewish women and Jewish men -- Sex between men : places, occupations, and classes -- The great American lawyer joke cycle -- The rise of the Soviet joke and the fall of the Soviet Union -- Conclusion.…”
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The ethics of care a feminist approach to human security / by Robinson, Fiona, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The ethics of care and global politics -- Rethinking human security -- 'Women's work' : the global care and sex economies -- Humanitarian intervention and global security governance -- Peacebuilding and paternalism : reading care through postcolonialism -- Health and human security : gender, care and HIV/AIDS -- Gender, care, and the ethics of environmental security -- Conclusion. …”
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Naked politics nudity, political action, and the rhetoric of the body / by Lunceford, Brett

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: naked in public (for a cause) -- Chained women and running nudes: PETA's body rhetoric -- Weaponizing the breast: lactivism and public breastfeeding -- Can you see me now, driver? …”
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Human rights in our own backyard injustice and resistance in the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women -- pt. VII. Human rights and resistance in the United States.…”
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Louisiana legacies readings in the history of the Pelican State /

Table of Contents: “…Louisiana's colonial context -- pt. 2. Women, race, and class in early Louisiana -- pt. 3. …”
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After a fall a sociomedical sojourn / by Richardson, Laurel

Table of Contents: “…Fear of falling -- We don't know why yet -- Help me ... help me -- What is right -- Lo and behold -- You have lots of friends -- Snake pit -- A time to every purpose -- Kiss me ... kiss -- Down with the bad, up with the good -- Food good for women -- Training wheels -- The forever home -- Temporily abled.…”
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William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890 by Hanson, Ingrid

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Warriors waiting for the word -- The early romances and the transformative touch of violence -- Knightly women and the imagination of battle in the defence of Guenevere, and other poems -- Sigurd the Volsung and the parameters of manliness -- Crossing the river of violence: the Germanic antiwars and the uncivilized uses of work and play -- All for the cause: fellowship, sacrifice and fruitful war -- Afterword: Hopeful strife and blameless peace.…”
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Reinventing religious studies key writings in the history of a discipline /

Table of Contents: “…Teaching religion -- pt. IV. Women and the bible in religious studies -- pt. V. …”
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Challenge and change in Appalachia : the story of Hindman Settlement School / by Stoddart, Jess, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Mixin' larns both parties : the beginnings -- The Women's Christian Temperance Union School, 1902-1915 -- Broadening out : Hindman Settlement School, 1915-1932 -- The best school in the mountains -- The challenges of a changing world, 1932-1977 -- A wider sphere of influence : Hindman Settlement School today -- Arousing the neighborhood : the community development initiative.…”
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The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination / by Epstein, Marc Michael, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Jewish visual culture as memory's mirror -- The Birds' Haggadah -- Birds' Head revisited -- Socioreligious stratification -- Narrative sequence -- Eucharistic polemics -- Metahistorical connections -- Eschatological hopes -- The Golden Haggadah -- Silence is golden -- Women hidden in plain sight -- The Rylands and "Brother" Haggadot -- Siblings : identical or fraternal? …”
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The Ethics of Swagger Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 / by Hill, Michael D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Beloved and black prizewinning -- Authorized mentors : to Africa and back in The color purple and Middle passage -- A lesson before dying as style guide -- One to write on : communion without consensus in The women of Brewster Place and Jazz -- Hunting inheritance in Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville incident -- Measured achievement : Sent for you yesterday's and Philadelphia fire's failed artists.…”
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Until the fires stopped burning 9/11 and New York City in the words and experiences of survivors and witnesses / by Strozier, Charles B.

Table of Contents: “…The event -- Survivors : zone 1 -- Witnesses : zone 2 -- Participants : zone 3 -- Onlookers : zone 4 -- The dying -- Apocalyptic interlude -- Traumasong -- Television : numbing and rage -- Hidden children : television's exception -- Organic process -- Disrupted lives -- Death and future -- Pregnant women -- The surprise of it all -- On trauma and zones of sadness -- Historical memory of the disaster.…”
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The Ethics of Swagger : Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 / by Hill, Michael D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Beloved and black prizewinning -- Authorized mentors : to Africa and back in The color purple and Middle passage -- A lesson before dying as style guide -- One to write on : communion without consensus in The women of Brewster Place and Jazz -- Hunting inheritance in Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville incident -- Measured achievement : Sent for you yesterday's and Philadelphia fire's failed artists.…”
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Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. …”
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Beyond Borders : Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma / by Chang, Wen-Chin, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Migration history -- The days in Burma: Zhang Dage -- Entangled love: Ae Maew -- Pursuit of ambition: father and son -- Islamic transnationalism: Yunnanese Muslims -- (Transnational) trade -- Venturing into barbarous regions: Yunnanese caravan traders -- Transcending gendered geographies: Yunnanese women traders -- Circulations of the jade trade: the Duans and the Pengs -- Epilogue: from mules to vehicles.…”
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Hidden heritage the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / by Jacobs, Janet Liebman

Table of Contents: “…Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- The self-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousness -- Syncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-Judaism -- Conversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soul -- Jewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion. …”
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