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Quebec national cinema by Marshall, Bill, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Producing and Envisioning the Nation -- 2 Foundational Fictions 25 -- 3 The Cinema of Modernization 46 -- 4 Quebec/France 75 -- 5 Sex and the Nation 103 -- 6 Auteurism after 1970 133 -- 7 Popular Cinema 172 -- 8 Women's Cinema 208 -- 9 The Indigenous Other 239 -- 10 The Immigrant Other 263 -- 11 Modernity and Postmodernity 285.…”
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Straight edge clean-living youth, hardcore punk, and social change / by Haenfler, Ross

Table of Contents: “…Straight edge 101 -- Straight edge core values -- Straight edge as a social movement -- Positivity versus militancy : struggles within the scene -- Masculinity in contradiction : the two faces of straight edge -- Girls united and divided : women in straight edge -- Life after subculture : how older straight edgers redefine commitment -- Commercialization, the Internet, and the cultic milieu -- Conclusions -- A timeline of straight edge bands.…”
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Blood and violence in early modern France by Carroll, Stuart, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Violence and society -- Justice and the law -- Peace -- Women, sex, and vindicatory violence -- III. Violence and the polity -- Quantifying violence -- The crisis of the religious wars -- Violence and royal authority in the seventeenth century -- Solutions.…”
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Alabama in the twentieth century by Flynt, Wayne, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning : the 1901 constitution -- Every man for himself : politics, Alabama style -- Selling Alabama : the economy -- Life from the bottom up : society -- Teaching the people : education -- On and off the pedestal : women -- Counting behind white folks : African Americans -- Fighting mad : Alabamians at war -- Beyond the game : the social significance of sports -- What would Jesus do? …”
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Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain : Networks, Power, and Everyday Life / by Kekki, Saara, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Network Analysis and the Study of Japanese American History -- From Immigration to Incarceration: The Japanese in the United States, 1890-1942 -- Heart Mountain Community and Modeling the Networks -- Those Who Govern: Political Power -- Sense of Belonging -- Individuals of Power and Power Families -- Women of Heart Mountain -- Disobedience behind Barbed Wire: Passive and Active Resistance -- Onward: Routes to Freedom -- Epilogue: Networks of Power and the Power of Networks.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / by Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.…”
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Queer African Cinemas / by Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Registering Resistance: The Pluralities and Possibilities of Queer African Cinemas -- Making Waves: Queer Eccentricity and West African Wayward Women -- Touching Nollywood: From Negation to Negotiation in Queer Nigerian Cinema -- Cutting Masculinities: Post-Apartheid South African Cinema -- Holding Space, Saving Joy: Queer Love and Critical Resilience in East Africa -- Coda: Queer Cinema's Destiny (a view from 2020).…”
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Caribbean autobiography cultural identity and self-representation / by Paquet, Sandra Pouchet

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ADVOCACY -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune Dispatches and the -- Nineteenth-Century Body Politic 23 -- Annamaria Formichella Elsden -- Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: -- Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home -- Prescriptions for Women's Writing 45 -- Sarah Robbins -- Parental Guidance: Disciplinary Intimacy and the -- Rise of Women's Regionalism 66 -- Janet GebhartAuten -- Kate Chopin and the Periodical: Revisiting the Re-Vision 78 -- Bonnie James Shaker --GENDER ROLES, SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS, AND THE WOMAN WRITER -- The Heroine of Her Own Story: Subversion of Traditional -- Periodical Marriage Tropes in the Short Fiction of Charlotte -- Perkins Gilman's Forerunner 95 -- Aleta Feinsod Cane -- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the -- Little Magazine Impulse in Modern America 113 -- Craig Monk -- "An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That Was Art": -- Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical 126 -- Michele L. …”
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Converging Europe transformation of social policy in the enlarged European Union and in Turkey /

Table of Contents: “…O'Connor -- Lisbon agenda, new structural policy and social cohesion in times of economic crisis / Otto Holman -- Reform dynamics in old Europe -- Pension reforms in Europe : directions and consequences / Karl Hinrichs -- Ideas, institutions, and interest in European and national reforms of employment and social policy : the case of flexicurity / Marcel Fink -- Eastern enlargement and european social model -- The politics of welfare restructuring in transition countries and the crisis of 2008 / Jan Drahokoupil and Martin Myant -- EU integration and post-communist welfare : catch-up convergence before and after the economic crisis / Noèmi Lendvai -- European integration and social policy transformation in Turkey -- Domestic social policy change due to the pressures of European integration : equality between women and men at work and women's employment policies in Turkey / Asuman Göksel -- Discourse and practice of poverty reduction strategies : reflections on the Turkish case in the 2000s / Galip L. …”
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ABC of epilepsy

Table of Contents: “….] -- Non-drug treatments including epilepsy surgery / Colin Ferrie, Henry Smithson & Matthew Walker -- Prolonged or repeated seizures / Matthew Walker -- Special groups: women, children, learning disability and the elderly / Jan Bagshaw, Colin Ferrie & Mike Kerr -- Monitoring and review: how to manage the condition long term / Colin Ferrie, Alice Hanscomb & Mike Kerr -- Living with epilepsy: information, support and self management / Alice Hanscomb, Henry Smithson.…”
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Creativity and change in Nigerian Christianity

Table of Contents: “…Asaju -- Reinhard Boonke's Crusades in Nigeria / Ezekiel Ajanai -- Youths and Pentecostalism / Essien Offiong -- Women and the politics of change / Dorcas O. Akitunde -- Women empowerment and Pentecostal experience / Oyeronke Olademo -- Healer-prophets and dynamics of power / Saibu A. …”
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Berek & Novak's gynecology.

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Eating from one pot : the dynamics of survival in poor South African households / by Mosoetsa, Sarah

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Diasporic histories cultural archives of Chinese transnationalism /

Table of Contents: “…Wong -- Between Sovereignty and Capitalism : The Historical Experiences of Migrant Chinese / Prasenjit Duara -- Exile in China during the Han Dynasty / Nicolas Zufferey -- Fantasizing the Homeland : Ji Yun's Recollections of Exile at the Western Frontier (1769-70) / Roland Altenburger -- The Voyage to Hong Kong : Bildungsroman in Hong Kong Literature of the 1950s / Mary Shuk- han Wong -- Another Diaspora : Chineseness and the Traffic in Women in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian / Pheng Cheah -- Queer Transnationalism : Literary Anthropologies from the Contact Zone / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Women and Diaspora : Zhao Shuxia's Novel Sai Jinhua and the Quest for Female Agency / Kathrin Ensinger -- Double Diaspora? …”
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The Other Population Crisis What Governments Can Do about Falling Birth Rates / by Kramer, Steven Philip

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Emergencies in psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries : second edition /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Anxious Patient in the Emergency Ward -- chapter 2 Psychiatric Emergencies in Substance Abuse -- chapter 3 Psychotic Disorders including Schizophrenia -- chapter 4 Psychiatric Emergencies in Grief -- chapter 5 Emergency Treatment of the Acutely Disturbed and Aggressive Patient -- chapter 6 Psychiatric Emergencies Associated with Drug Overdose -- chapter 7 Psychiatric Emergencies in Women -- chapter 8 Emergency Management of Suicidal Behavior -- chapter 9 Psychiatric Emergencies in Disaster Situations -- chapter 10 Child Psychiatric Emergencies -- chapter 11 Sexual Emergencies: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective -- chapter 12 Psychiatric Emergencies in Medical Conditions -- chapter 13 Psychiatric Emergencies in Personality Disorders -- chapter 14 Legal Aspects of Psychiatric Emergencies -- chapter 15 Psychiatric Emergencies in the Elderly -- chapter 16 Psychiatric Emergencies after Terrorist Attacks.…”
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Transcultural bodies female genital cutting in global context /

Table of Contents: “…: challenging myths of sexual dysfunction in circumcised women / Fuambai Ahmadu -- The failure of pluralism? …”
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Depression research in nursing global perspectives /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Predictors of depression in Thai women / Sopin Sangon -- Depression coping self-efficacy as a predictor of relapse 1 and 2 years following psychiatric hospital-based treatment / Sharon Tucker ... …”
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Civil and political rights in Japan : a tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley /

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