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The industrious revolution consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present / by De Vries, Jan, 1943 Nov. 14-

Table of Contents: “…The transformation of consumer desire in the long eighteenth century -- The origins of the industrious revolution -- The industrious revolution : the supply of labor -- The industrious revolution : consumer demand -- The breadwinner-homemaker household -- A second industrious revolution?.…”
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Molecular Feminisms : Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab / by Roy, Deboleena

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: stolonic strategies -- Biophilosophies of becoming -- Microphysiologies of desire -- Bacterial lives: sex, gender, and the lust for writing -- Should feminists clone? …”
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Collecting and appreciating Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption / by Francescato, Simone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Unmasking the naturalist collector: Zola, Turgenev and James; A youth upon whom nothing was lost; The last sacrifice; The extending of one's horizon -- Henry James's aesthetics of desire. Georg Simmel's "value-increasing process"; The ambiguities of a fin-de-siecle connoisseur: Bernard Berenson; The most exquisite economy: Henry James's aesthetics of desire; Appreciation and interpretation -- The spoils of Poynton. …”
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Lacan and the limits of language by Shepherdson, Charles

Table of Contents: “…The intimate alterity of the real -- The atrocity of desire : of love and beauty in Lacan's Antigone -- Emotion, affect, drive -- Telling tales of love : philosophy, literature, and psychoanalysis -- The place of memory in psychoanalysis -- Human diversity and the sexual relation.…”
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Filipino crosscurrents oceanographies of seafaring, masculinities, and globalization / by Fajardo, Kale Bantigue

Table of Contents: “…The race of the century: galleons and global city desires in Manila -- Ashore and away: Filipino seamen as heroes and deserters -- Ethnography in blue: navigating time-space in the global economy -- Transportation: seamen and tomboys in ports and at sea.…”
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution / by Richardson, Matt, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : listening to the archives : Black lesbian literature and queer memory -- Desirous mistresses and unruly slaves : neo-slave narratives, property, power, and desire -- Small movements : queer blues epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her -- "Mens womens some that is both some that is neither" : spiritual epistemology and queering the Black rural South in the work of Sharon Bridgforth -- "Make it up and trace it back" : remembering Black trans subjectivity in Jackie Kay's Trumpet -- What grace was : erotic epistemologies and diasporic belonging in Dionne Brand's In another place, not here -- Epilogue : grieving the queer : anti-Black violence and black collective memory.…”
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Psychoanalytic reflections on a changing world

Table of Contents: “…Psychoanalytic reflections on the fantastic objects of desire -- pt. 3. Psychoanalytic reflections on the world of interconnectivity -- pt. 4. …”
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Between two shores Idir dhá chladach : writing the Aran Islands, 1890-1980 / by Conneely, Mairéad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ramhrá -- Writing Aran / Ag scríobh murainn -- Between two shores / Idir dhá Chladach -- The mirror of desire / Scáthán an dúil -- You are an island on the sea / Is oileán tú ar muir -- Conclusions / Conclúidí.…”
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Montgomery Clift, queer star / by Girelli, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Montgomery Clift and queer theory -- Irruption in Hollywood: the beautiful boy -- The peak of stardom: desire, multiplicity, deviancy -- The 1956 car accident and a new queerness -- The final period: "abnormality," asexuality, asynchrony -- Epilogue.…”
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Happiness, flourishing and the good life : a transformative vision for human well-being / by Thomson, Garrett, Gill, Scherto, Goodson, Ivor

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries for a Framework -- Beyond Instrumentalisation -- Activities and Desires -- Awareness -- Relationships -- Evaluative Self-Awareness -- Towards a Definition of Well-Being ; Appendix: Understanding Well-Being Through Life Narratives -- Towards Social Critique.…”
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Empire of love histories of France and the Pacific / by Matsuda, Matt K.

Table of Contents: “…Rochefort : the family romance of the French Pacific -- Panama : geopolitics of desire -- Wallis and Futuna : martyrs and memories -- Society islands : Tahitian archives -- New Caledonia : prisoners of love -- Indochina : romance of the ruins -- Japan : the tears of Madame Chrysanthème.…”
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The subject of addiction psychoanalysis and the administration of enjoyment / by Loose, Rik

Table of Contents: “…Classical foundations for a theory on addiction : the energetics of libido and the economics of desire -- pt. 2. The post-Freudian reduction of a field and the fruits of a confrontation -- pt. 3. …”
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The Scientific American book of love, sex, and the brain the neuroscience of how, when, why, and who we love / by Horstman, Judith

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Waste : Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater / by Rizzo, Jessica

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Collateral Damage : The Influence of Political Rhetoric on the Incorporation of Second-Generation Americans / by Richey, Sean

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Waste : Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater / by Rizzo, Jessica

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National camera photography and Mexico's image environment / by Tejada, Roberto

Table of Contents: “…Itinerary: Travels in the image environment -- Tenures of land and light: Casasola, revolution, and archive -- Experiment in related form: Weston, Modotti, and the aims of desire --Metropolitan matters: Álvarez Bravo's Mexico City -- For history, posterity, and art: the borderline claims of Boystown.…”
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Innocence and rapture the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov / by Ohi, Kevin, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : innocence and rapture -- "Doomed creatures of immature radiance" : Renaissance, death, and rapture in Walter Pater -- Narcissists anonymous : reading and Dorian Gray's new worlds -- "Blameless and foredoomed" : innocence and haste in The turn of the screw -- Sentimentality, desire, and aestheticism in Lolita.…”
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Heterosyncrasies female sexuality when normal wasn't / by Lochrie, Karma

Table of Contents: “…-- Untold pleasures : Heloise's theory of female desire and religious practice -- Far from heaven : nuns, prioresses, and Lollard anxieties -- Before the tribade : medieval anatomies of female masculinity and pleasure -- Amazons at the gates.…”
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A history of homosexuality in Europe Berlin, London, Paris 1919-1939 / by Tamagne, Florence

Table of Contents: “…Unacknowledged fears and desires : ambiguous speech and stereotyped images, homosexuals become commonplace during the inter-war period.…”
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