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"Not even past" race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten / by Stringer, Dorothy, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…"Little black man": repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary -- "Which tooth hit you first?": nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.…”
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The grand regulator the miseducation of Nova Scotia's teachers, 1838-1997 / by Perry, George D.

Table of Contents: “…Training as a woman's story, 1870-1961 : the licensing, training, and education of women teachers -- pt. 4. Conclusion : 1961-97.…”
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Introduction to aboriginal health and health care in Canada bridging health and healing / by Douglas, Vasiliki Kravariotis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Canada : understanding the issues -- Western and aboriginal ways of knowing -- Cultural competency, cultural sensitivity, and cultural safety -- Historical overview -- Understanding the determinants of health and Canada's native population -- Diabetes, diet, and nutrition -- Chronic and infectious diseases -- Women's and children's health -- Mental health -- Hybridisation of health care and the way forward for aboriginal health.…”
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Originalism and the good constitution / by McGinnis, John O., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Originalism : Its Discontents and the Supermajoritarian Solution -- The Nature of the Argument -- The Supermajoritarian Theory of Constitutionalism -- The Compliance of the US Constitution with Desirable Supermajority Rules -- The Continuing Desirability of an Old Supermajoritarian Constitution -- Supermajoritarian Failure, Including the Exclusion of African Americans and Women -- Original Methods Originalism -- Original Methods versus Constitutional Construction -- Precedent, Originalism, and the Constitution -- The Normative Theory of Precedent -- Imagining an Originalist Future.…”
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City of islands : Caribbean intellectuals in New York / by Brown, Tammy L., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Moore and Pan-Caribbean consciousness -- Pearl Primus and the performance of African diasporic identities -- Shirley Chisholm and the style of multicultural democracy -- Paule Marshall and the voice of black immigrant women -- Coda: "Garvey's ghost" : life after death.…”
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Victorian Sacrifice Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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The quest for multi-functional medicines path for progress, the Tamoxifen story. Lecture 1 /

Table of Contents: “…It is estimated that millions of women are alive today because of tamoxifen treatment. …”
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Entrepreneurship in Africa : context and perspectives / by Sriram, Ven, Lingelbach, David, 1961-, Mersha, Tigineh, 1946-, Manu, Franklyn, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The African Environment for Entrepreneurship -- Theories of Entrepreneurship -- Mindset, Capabilities and Goals -- Financing the Venture -- The Marketing Imperative -- Operations and Supply Chain Management -- Managing Networks and Teams -- Appendices to Part III: Business Plans and Pitch Decks -- Next Steps -- African Women Entrepreneurs -- Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Real Estate Development -- Understanding Entrepreneurs: A Focus on Youth -- Technologies Enabling Entrepreneurship in Africa.…”
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Household servants in early modern domestic tragedy by Sheeha, Iman

Table of Contents: “…I will kill my master: Murderous Service in The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham -- An honest knave: Servants in A Warning for Fair Women -- Down goes the house of us: Serving the Dysfunctional Household in Thomas Middleton's A Yorkshire Tragedy -- A house in a sweet pickle: Servants and Disordered Domesticity in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness -- Conclusion.…”
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The quest for multi-functional medicines path for progress, the Tamoxifen story. Lecture 1 /

Table of Contents: “…It is estimated that millions of women are alive today because of tamoxifen treatment. …”
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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth : A Memoir of Brotherhood / by González, Rigoberto

Table of Contents: “…Opening Salvo -- Days of Hunger, Days of Want -- The Prisoner of Nahuatzen -- Adelina's Story -- Canto -- Take a Guess -- About Women -- A Complicated Man -- Post Mortem -- When the Hard Times Become Lonely Times -- Greetings From New York City, 1968 -- Brotherly Love -- A Oaxaca Journal -- Family Outing -- The Wondrous Flight of the Hummingbird -- Manpower…”
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Unnatural selections eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / by English, Daylanne K.

Table of Contents: “…Eliot's strange gods : celibacy, hierarchy, and tradition -- The making and delivering of Americans in Gertrude Stein's early writings, 1903-1925 -- Blessed are the barren : lynching, reproduction, and the drama of new Negro womanhood, 1916-1930 -- New white women the U.S. eugenic family studies field workers, 1910-1918.…”
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The segregated origins of social security African Americans and the welfare state / by Poole, Mary, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…President, we are looking for something : African Americans, the Social Security Act, and the Great Depression -- The not-so-solid South : southern Democrats in Congress -- Colorblind public policy : the staff of the Committee on Economic Security -- Shaky ground : Black and interracial organizations -- Gender and the white united front : the women of the federal Children's Bureau -- Conclusion : those old discriminatory practices.…”
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The quest for multi-functional medicines path for progress, the Tamoxifen story. Lecture 1 /

Table of Contents: “…It is estimated that millions of women are alive today because of tamoxifen treatment. …”
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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth : A Memoir of Brotherhood / by González, Rigoberto

Table of Contents: “…Opening Salvo -- Days of Hunger, Days of Want -- The Prisoner of Nahuatzen -- Adelina's Story -- Canto -- Take a Guess -- About Women -- A Complicated Man -- Post Mortem -- When the Hard Times Become Lonely Times -- Greetings From New York City, 1968 -- Brotherly Love -- A Oaxaca Journal -- Family Outing -- The Wondrous Flight of the Hummingbird -- Manpower…”
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Victorian Sacrifice : Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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African American urban history since World War II

Table of Contents: “…Brown -- Gender, class, and social-welfare policy: shifting paradigms of black women's work in the urban north and west: World War II to the present / Jacqueline Jones -- "Something's wrong down here": poor black women and urban struggles for democracy / Rhonda Y. …”
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After the death of nature : Carolyn Merchant and the future of human-nature relations /

Table of Contents: “…-- Carolyn Merchant's the death of nature: launching new trajectories in interdisciplinary research -- From a partnership to a fidelity ethic: framing an old story for a new time -- Bewitching nature -- Leading and misleading metaphors: from organism to anthropocene -- Part II: Environmental history: Personal, political, and professional: the impact of Carolyn Merchant's life and leadership -- Carolyn Merchant and the ecological Indian -- All our relations: reflections on women, nature, and science -- The other scientific revolution: Calvinist scientists and the origins of ecology -- Carolyn Merchant and the environmental humanities in Scandinavia -- Part III: The politics of landscapes, embodiment, and epistemologies: Landscape, science, and social reproduction: the long-reaching influence of Carolyn Merchant's insight -- The spiritual politics of the Kendeng Mountains versus the global cement industry1 -- Toward a political ecology of environmental discourse -- Environmental history and the materialization of bodies -- A mighty tree is Carolyn Merchant -- Afterward -- Index.…”
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