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Queer Korea /

Table of Contents: “…Ritual specialists in colonial drag: Shamanic interventions in 1920s Korea / Merose Hwang -- Telling queer time in a straight empire: Yi Sang's "Wings" (1936) / John Whittier Treat -- Problematizing love: the intimate event and same-sex love in colonial Korea / Pei Jean Chen -- Femininity under the wartime system and the symptomacity of female same-sex love / Shin-ae Ha (translated by Kyunghee Eo) -- A female-dressed man sings a national epic: the film Male Kisaeng and the politics of gender and sexuality in 1960s South Korea / Chung-kang Kim -- Queer lives as cautionary tales: female homoeroticism and the heteropatriarchal imagination of authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. …”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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Jews and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…Hodes -- Jewish feminism as a model for Judaism as a choice / Hannah Kehat -- The pioneering American Jewish women directors : from Elaine May to Claudia Weill / Lawrence Baron -- "When you're a funny girl" : confirming and complicating accepted cultural images of Jewish femininity in the films of Barbra Streisand / Samantha Pickette -- "Schlemiel feminism" : Jewish humor and activism on 'Broad City' / David Gillota -- Poskot in the palace of Torah : a preliminary study of orthodox feminism and Halachic process Gail Labovitz.…”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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Jews and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…Hodes -- Jewish feminism as a model for Judaism as a choice / Hannah Kehat -- The pioneering American Jewish women directors : from Elaine May to Claudia Weill / Lawrence Baron -- "When you're a funny girl" : confirming and complicating accepted cultural images of Jewish femininity in the films of Barbra Streisand / Samantha Pickette -- "Schlemiel feminism" : Jewish humor and activism on 'Broad City' / David Gillota -- Poskot in the palace of Torah : a preliminary study of orthodox feminism and Halachic process Gail Labovitz.…”
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Hope or hype the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises / by Deyo, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…how to get the "right" answer in clinical research -- "Cancer cured--film at 11:00": the media's role in disseminating medical advances -- Doctors and hospitals: fueling the drive for new and more -- Advocacy groups: Mother Teresa's waiting room -- Holes in the safety net: the FDA and the FTC -- Ineffective. inferior or needlessly costly new drugs -- Medical devices that disappoint -- Ineffective or needlessly extensive surgery -- Weight loss technology: shedding pounds from your waistline or your wallet? …”
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Hope or hype the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises / by Deyo, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…how to get the "right" answer in clinical research -- "Cancer cured--film at 11:00": the media's role in disseminating medical advances -- Doctors and hospitals: fueling the drive for new and more -- Advocacy groups: Mother Teresa's waiting room -- Holes in the safety net: the FDA and the FTC -- Ineffective. inferior or needlessly costly new drugs -- Medical devices that disappoint -- Ineffective or needlessly extensive surgery -- Weight loss technology: shedding pounds from your waistline or your wallet? …”
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A Jewish feminine mystique? Jewish women in postwar America /

Table of Contents: “…Del Negro -- Judy Holliday's urban working girl characters in 1950s Hollywood film / Judith Smith -- The "gentle Jewish mother" who owned a luxury resort : the public image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Rachel Kranson -- Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the age of the feminine mystique and after / Barbara Sicherman -- We were ready to turn the world upside down : radical feminism and Jewish women / Joyce Antler -- Jewish women remaking American feminism : women remaking American Judaism : reflections on the life of Betty Friedan / Daniel Horowitz.…”
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We are Iraqis aesthetics and politics in a time of war /

Table of Contents: “…Jawad -- My own private Munich / Dahlia Petrus -- Hassan Abdulrazzak: a selection / Hassan Abdulrazzak -- Reframing Sunni and Shii discussions / Yara Badday -- Invisible mirror: aggression and the thumb-generation response / Wafaa Bilal -- Iraq: a long phantasmagorical dream for those who are not part of the new capitalism or retired communism / Ali Bader -- Migratory sacred spaces: (re)creating ʻAshūrāʼ -- Dena Al-Adeeb -- Liberal mass media (mis)communication and Iraqi (dis)connections / Celia Shallal -- Sophisticated ways: destruction of an ancient city / Nadje Al-Ali -- My trips to the unknown / Maki Al Nazzal -- A tale of two exiles / Sama Alshaibi -- 1001 nights / Jananne Al-Ani -- Arab-Jews, diasporas, and multicultural feminism: a conversation with Ella Habiba Shohat / Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany -- A film-training project for young Iraqis / Maysoon Pachachi -- Lyrical resistance: the example of Saadi Youssef / Ferial J. …”
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Appalachia in the classroom teaching the region /

Table of Contents: “…Engelhardt -- The southern highlands according to Hollywood : teaching Appalachian history through film / John C. Inscoe -- Building bridges with Ron Rash's The world made straight : results from one university and high school partnership / Erica Abrams Locklear -- The feast hall, the arsenal, and the mirror : teaching literature to students at risk / Jeff Mann -- I hear Appalachia singing : teaching Appalachian literature in a general education American literature course / Linda Tate -- "Way back yonder" but not so far away : teaching Appalachian folktales / Tina L. …”
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The past in the present : the construction of Polish history / by Traba, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Poles and Germans : the empirical world -- On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study -- In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin -- Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop -- Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Dröbnitz) -- "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia -- The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II -- "It was only a film!" : three images of conflicts and dialogues of memory.…”
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Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation /

Table of Contents: “…Poetry and place : a presentation / Caroline Harvey -- B. Film transcript : Colorado College's large landscape conservation strategy to save the Colorado River Basin / Alex Suber -- The drowning fish : large landscapes and the burden of significance / Blair Braverman.…”
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A Jewish feminine mystique? Jewish women in postwar America /

Table of Contents: “…Del Negro -- Judy Holliday's urban working girl characters in 1950s Hollywood film / Judith Smith -- The "gentle Jewish mother" who owned a luxury resort : the public image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Rachel Kranson -- Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the age of the feminine mystique and after / Barbara Sicherman -- We were ready to turn the world upside down : radical feminism and Jewish women / Joyce Antler -- Jewish women remaking American feminism : women remaking American Judaism : reflections on the life of Betty Friedan / Daniel Horowitz.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

We are Iraqis aesthetics and politics in a time of war /

Table of Contents: “…Jawad -- My own private Munich / Dahlia Petrus -- Hassan Abdulrazzak: a selection / Hassan Abdulrazzak -- Reframing Sunni and Shii discussions / Yara Badday -- Invisible mirror: aggression and the thumb-generation response / Wafaa Bilal -- Iraq: a long phantasmagorical dream for those who are not part of the new capitalism or retired communism / Ali Bader -- Migratory sacred spaces: (re)creating ʻAshūrāʼ -- Dena Al-Adeeb -- Liberal mass media (mis)communication and Iraqi (dis)connections / Celia Shallal -- Sophisticated ways: destruction of an ancient city / Nadje Al-Ali -- My trips to the unknown / Maki Al Nazzal -- A tale of two exiles / Sama Alshaibi -- 1001 nights / Jananne Al-Ani -- Arab-Jews, diasporas, and multicultural feminism: a conversation with Ella Habiba Shohat / Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany -- A film-training project for young Iraqis / Maysoon Pachachi -- Lyrical resistance: the example of Saadi Youssef / Ferial J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Appalachia in the classroom teaching the region /

Table of Contents: “…Engelhardt -- The southern highlands according to Hollywood : teaching Appalachian history through film / John C. Inscoe -- Building bridges with Ron Rash's The world made straight : results from one university and high school partnership / Erica Abrams Locklear -- The feast hall, the arsenal, and the mirror : teaching literature to students at risk / Jeff Mann -- I hear Appalachia singing : teaching Appalachian literature in a general education American literature course / Linda Tate -- "Way back yonder" but not so far away : teaching Appalachian folktales / Tina L. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The past in the present : the construction of Polish history / by Traba, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Poles and Germans : the empirical world -- On Germans "mine" and "not mine" : a personal case study -- In search of a "portable homeland" : Poles in multi-cultural Berlin -- Warmia/Ermland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : a sketch portrait of the village of Purda Wielka as a backdrop -- Collective memory and cultural landscape : reflections on a war cemetery restoration project in Drweck (Dröbnitz) -- "You glorify the foreign, but you do not know your own" : the magic of place and the mythologizing of landscape as factors in national education in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of East Prussia -- The "landscape after battle" : the political cult of the fallen in Poland after World War II -- "It was only a film!" : three images of conflicts and dialogues of memory.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Conservation catalysts : how academics and researchers are advancing large landscape preservation /

Table of Contents: “…Poetry and place : a presentation / Caroline Harvey -- B. Film transcript : Colorado College's large landscape conservation strategy to save the Colorado River Basin / Alex Suber -- The drowning fish : large landscapes and the burden of significance / Blair Braverman.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /

Table of Contents: “…Culley -- Desire distorted and exhibited: Lot and his daughters in psychoanalysis, painting, and film / J. Cheryl Exum -- The gift: world alteration and obligation in 2 Kings 4:8-37 / Danna Nolan Fewell -- Contextual theologies in the Old Testament? …”
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Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries, 1700-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Reinstating a consensus of blame: the film adaptation of Tessa de Loo's De tweeling (1993) and Dutch memories of wartime / Jenny Watson -- 9. …”
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A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /

Table of Contents: “…Culley -- Desire distorted and exhibited: Lot and his daughters in psychoanalysis, painting, and film / J. Cheryl Exum -- The gift: world alteration and obligation in 2 Kings 4:8-37 / Danna Nolan Fewell -- Contextual theologies in the Old Testament? …”
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