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Intimate labors cultures, technologies, and the politics of care /

Table of Contents: “…Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? …”
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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar -- Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen -- Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega -- Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. …”
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The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks

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Attributes of project-friendly enterprises / by Anantatmula, Vittal S., 1955-, Rad, Parviz F., 1942-

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Autobiography of My Hungers / by González, Rigoberto

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Sappho: Fragments by Goldberg, Jonathan

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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Testosterone dreams rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping / by Hoberman, John M. (John Milton), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Testosterone as therapy and myth -- "Psychic steroids" : Prozac as a performance-enhancing drug -- Back to the future : the sex hormone market from organotherapy to "andro" -- The aphrodisiac that failed : why testosterone did not become a mass sex therapy -- What they did to women : the origins of sex therapy -- Sex before kinsey : what doctors and patients did not know -- Hormones and the state : sex and marital stability -- Patriarchal sex therapy : curing "frigidity" with hormones -- Reorienting male desire : curing homosexuals with sex hormones -- Aphrodisia for the masses? …”
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Over the wall/after the fall post-communist cultures through an East-West gaze /

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Sex & money feminism and political economy in the media /

Table of Contents: “…Meehan -- The thrill is gone : advertising, gender representation, and the loss of desire / Robin Andersen -- Xuxa at the borders of U.S. …”
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Geographies of sexualities theory, practices, and politics /

Table of Contents: “…Del Casino Jr -- Queer critique and the politics of affect / Jason Lim -- Developmental desire and/or transnational jouissance : re-formulating sexual subjectivities in transcultural contact zones / Hanna Hacker -- Fucking geography, again / David Bell -- Practices -- Playing with restraints : space, citizenship and BDSM / RDK Herman -- Queer mixed race? …”
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The Bodies That Remain

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Sappho: Fragments by Goldberg, Jonathan

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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Bright Signals : A History of Color Television / by Murray, Susan, 1967-

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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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Marlene Dietrich life and legend / by Bach, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Fame : 1930-1931 ; Eight. Empress of desire : 1931-1932 ; Nine. Apotheosis : 1933-1934 ; Ten. …”
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Represent and destroy rationalizing violence in the new racial capitalism / by Melamed, Jodi

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Souls with longing representations of honor and love in Shakespeare /

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The legacies of two world wars European societies in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…: the Hague peace conferences as a limited tool for reforming the international system before 1914 / Jost D�ulffer -- "The spirit of 1914" : a critical examination of war enthusiasm in German society / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- Construction and deconstruction of the idea of French "war enthusiasm" in 1914 / Nicolas Beaupr�e -- The mood in Britain, 1914 / Hartmut von Pogge Strandmann -- The First World War in the history of the Weimar Republic / Gerd Krumreich -- Fascism and legacy of the Great War / Angelo Ventrone -- The French desire for peace and security in the 1920's / Jean-Claude Allain -- Britain in the wake in the Great War / Jay Winter -- Germany : war without public backing / Hans Mommsen -- The French entry into the war in September 1939 : between reluctans and resignation / Barbara Lambauer -- Great Britain : declaring war as a matter of honour / Lothar Kettenacker -- Disillusionment, pragmatism, indifference : German society after the "catastrophe" / Clemens Vollnhals -- The French after 1945 : difficulties and disappointments of an immediate post-war period / Fabrice Grenard -- Great Britain : remembering a just war (1945-1950) / Toby Haggith -- Italy after 1945 : war and peace, defeat and liberation / Gustavo Corni.…”
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