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The American non-dilemma : racial inequality without racism / by DiTomaso, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Introduction : racial inequality without racism -- Jobs, opportunities, and fairness : the stakes of equal opportunity -- Community, networks, and social capital -- The American dream : individualism and inequality -- The transformation of post-civil rights politics : race, religion, class, and culture -- The white electorate : the white working class, religious conservatives, professionals, and the disengaged -- Government, taxes, and welfare -- Affirmative actions and equal opportunity : changes in access to education and jobs for women, African Americans, and immigrants -- Conclusion : Myrdal's dilemma and the American non-dilemma.…”
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The quest for multi-functional medicines path for progress, the SERM story. Lecture 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Raloxifene is a pioneering SERM used to prevent and treat osteoporosis and is approved in the United States of America to reduce the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women.…”
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The quest for multi-functional medicines path for progress, the SERM story. Lecture 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Raloxifene is a pioneering SERM used to prevent and treat osteoporosis and is approved in the United States of America to reduce the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women.…”
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Distant Companions : Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900–1985 / by Hansen, Karen Tranberg

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the problem and its context -- Part I.A fixture of colonial society -- The creation of a gender role: the male domestic servant -- Women for hire? Sex and gender in domestic service -- Troubled lives: servants and their employers in the preindependence era -- Part II. …”
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Orpheus in America / by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Table of Contents: “…Before my departure -- The crossing -- New York, the Gilmore Garden -- The house, the street, the cars -- The theatres of New York -- The restaurants, three types of waiters -- Women, the introductions, the park -- The story of two statues -- The liberties in America -- Organizations -- Advertising -- The races -- The American press -- Some portraits -- Philadelphia -- Offenbach Garden -- To Niagara, Pullman cars -- Niagara Falls -- The Dauphin Eleazar -- Returning from Niagara sleeping cars -- The tortures of a musician -- Banquets, baton, and Brevet -- Farewell soiree -- The return.…”
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Success without victory lost legal battles and the long road to justice in America / by Lobel, Jules

Table of Contents: “…The Constitution and Iraq -- A tradition of resistance : anti-slavery litigators and the fight for freedom -- "A fine agitation" : women's suffrage goes to court -- Plessy v. Ferguson : the fool's last battle -- Plant closing litigation : "Youngstown sure died hard" -- Politics versus law : were travelers to Cuba trading with the enemy? …”
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Working together how workplace bonds strengthen a diverse democracy / by Estlund, Cynthia

Table of Contents: “…Connectedness in the workplace : a sketch -- From "the workplace" to workplaces : variety and change in the organization of work -- Working together across racial lines : how much does it happen and what difference does it make? -- Men and women working together : some consequences of gender integration at work -- Situating the workplace in civil society : social integration, social capital, and deliberation at work -- Compulsion, connectedness, and the constitution of the workplace -- Refining the "Equal protection clause" of the workplace -- Protecting collective voice and promoting cooperation in the workplace.…”
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The games black girls play learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop / by Gaunt, Kyra Danielle

Table of Contents: “…Slide : games as lessons in black musical style -- Education, liberation : learning the ropes of a musical blackness -- Mary Mack dressed in black : the earliest formation of a popular music -- Saw you with your boyfriend : music between the sexes -- Whose got next game? : women, hip-hop, and the power of language -- Double forces has got the beat : reclaiming girls' music in the sport of double-dutch -- Let a woman jump : dancing with the Double Dutch Divas.…”
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Inclusion the politics of difference in medical research / by Epstein, Steven

Table of Contents: “…-- Sex differences and the new politics of women's health -- Whither the paradigm?…”
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The Bohemian body gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture / by Thomas, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…Maidens, barbarians, and vampires : nationality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Czech literature -- Gender, form, and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Czech women's writing -- Czech mates : homosexuality in Czech modernist short fiction, 1917-20 -- Between Paris and Moscow : sexuality and politics in interwar Czech poetry and film -- Robots, golems, and femmes fatales : the drama of Karel Čapek -- Terror and dream were my father and mother : postwar Czech fiction and film -- "The unborn" : postwar feminist fiction and film.…”
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The quest for multi-functional medicines path for progress, the SERM story. Lecture 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Raloxifene is a pioneering SERM used to prevent and treat osteoporosis and is approved in the United States of America to reduce the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women.…”
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Distant Companions : Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900–1985 / by Hansen, Karen Tranberg

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the problem and its context -- Part I.A fixture of colonial society -- The creation of a gender role: the male domestic servant -- Women for hire? Sex and gender in domestic service -- Troubled lives: servants and their employers in the preindependence era -- Part II. …”
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Orpheus in America / by Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Table of Contents: “…Before my departure -- The crossing -- New York, the Gilmore Garden -- The house, the street, the cars -- The theatres of New York -- The restaurants, three types of waiters -- Women, the introductions, the park -- The story of two statues -- The liberties in America -- Organizations -- Advertising -- The races -- The American press -- Some portraits -- Philadelphia -- Offenbach Garden -- To Niagara, Pullman cars -- Niagara Falls -- The Dauphin Eleazar -- Returning from Niagara sleeping cars -- The tortures of a musician -- Banquets, baton, and Brevet -- Farewell soiree -- The return.…”
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Sexual minority research in the new millennium

Table of Contents: “…Morrison -- A test of prejudice reduction towards lesbian women : the effects of imaginary contact on explicit and implicit homonegativity / Daragh T. …”
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Child marriage in an international frame : a feminist review from India / by John, Mary E., 1956-

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Authority, gender, and midwifery in early modern Italy : contested deliveries / by Kosmin, Jennifer F.

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender aging research and clinical perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Grossman -- Sexuality in the lives of aging lesbian and bisexual women / Linda Garnets and Letitia Anne Peplau -- Gay men and aging: sex and intimacy / Edward A. …”
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'Race', youth sport, physical activity and health : global perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…a collaborative self-study of teaching about race in PETE programmes -- Stories of difference and sameness: South Asian, Muslim young women talk physical education, -- Athleticising young black lives: confusing education with commerce in high school sports -- "Playing the game" and "finding my way": minority ethnic female PE teachers' counter-stories -- Race logic in American college sports: athletic exploitation, privilege and institutional resentment -- Challenging the stereotypical construction of black physical superiority and intellectual inferiority in sport -- Le parkour, freerunning and young white men: identities, resistances and digital representations -- Sport and the normalisation of Australian aboriginal peoples -- British Asians, racial framing and football exclusion -- Physicality and health inequalities in British Pakistani Muslim women: analysis of a participatory theatre-based play -- Decolonising health in education: considering Indigenous knowledge in policy documents -- The "health gap" from a social justice perspective: critical race theory, post colonialism, and post-feminism.…”
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Cries of joy, songs of sorrow Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations / by Moskowitz, Marc L.

Table of Contents: “…The tail wags the dog : Taiwan's musical counter-invasion of China -- China's mandopop roots and Taiwan's gendered counter-invasion of the PRC -- Hybridity and its discontents : popular music in Taiwan -- Message in a bottle : lyrical laments and emotional expression in mandopop -- Men writing songs for women who complain about men : mandopop's gender construction in Taiwan and the PRC -- A man for all occasions : charisma and differing masculinity in mandopop -- Mandopop under siege : culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music.…”
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Living dangerously on the margins in Medieval and early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…"Nede ne hath no lawe": the plea of necessity in medieval literature and law / Richard Firth Green -- Upward mobility in the German high middle ages: the ascent of a faithful liar -- Vickie Ziegler -- Women in love: carnal and spiritual transgressions in late Medieval France / Dyan Elliott -- Gendering the disenfranchised: down, out, and female in early modern Spain / Anne J. …”
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