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The ruins : a novel / by Smith, Scott, 1965 July 13-

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On the move for love migrant entertainers and the U.S. military in South Korea / by Cheng, Sealing

Table of Contents: “…Sexing the globe -- "Foreign" and "fallen" in South Korea -- Women who hope -- The club regime and club-girl power -- Love "between my heart and my head" -- At home in exile -- "Giving value to the voices" -- Hop, leap, and swerve--or hope in motion.…”
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The ruins : a novel / by Smith, Scott, 1965 July 13-

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Male homosexuality in modern Japan cultural myths and social realities / by McLelland, Mark J., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Homosexuality in Japanese history -- Just like a girl : images of homosexual men as feminine -- The love between "beautiful boys" in women's comics -- Gay men as women's best friends and ideal marriage partners -- Images of homosexuality in the gay media -- Interviews with Japanese gay men -- Japanese gay men's self-understanding -- Is there a Japanese gay identity?…”
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Oxbridge men British masculinity and the undergraduate experience, 1850-1920 / by Deslandes, Paul R., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…: boat races, heterosocial relations, and masculinity -- Girl graduates and colonial students.…”
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Mad men, women, and children essays on gender and generation /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Nancy Batty and Heather Marcovitch -- Working Girls. Sex, Novels, and the Working Girl: Mad Men and Women's Bestsellers of the 1960s / Heather Marcovitch -- What Do a Meaningless Secretary and a Humorless Bitch Have in Common? …”
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Mad men, women, and children essays on gender and generation /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Nancy Batty and Heather Marcovitch -- Working Girls. Sex, Novels, and the Working Girl: Mad Men and Women's Bestsellers of the 1960s / Heather Marcovitch -- What Do a Meaningless Secretary and a Humorless Bitch Have in Common? …”
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Places in the bone a memoir / by Dine, Carol

Table of Contents: “…The tape in the drawer -- The locked box -- Bad girls -- The woman in my poem -- Treatments -- Sisters -- Reconstruction -- The mahogany box -- Talking to God -- Exile -- Dear mother -- Places in the bone -- A chain of women -- Lovers and sons -- In remission -- The lighthouse.…”
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Chick lit and postfeminism by Harzewski, Stephanie, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: heels over Hemingway -- Postmodernism's last romance -- Bridget Jones's diary and the production of a popular Austen -- Sex and the city and the New York novel -- The legacy of working-girl fiction -- Theorizing postfeminist fictions of development -- Epilogue.…”
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Lottie Moon a Southern Baptist missionary to China in history and legend / by Sullivan, Regina D., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"A girl of the Old South" : 1840-1873 -- "Responsible to God and not to man" : 1873-1885 -- The "disorderly" walk : 1886-1891 -- Creating a female public : 1889-1899 -- Creating the "Lottie Moon story" : 1900-1912 and beyond.…”
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Chick lit and postfeminism by Harzewski, Stephanie, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: heels over Hemingway -- Postmodernism's last romance -- Bridget Jones's diary and the production of a popular Austen -- Sex and the city and the New York novel -- The legacy of working-girl fiction -- Theorizing postfeminist fictions of development -- Epilogue.…”
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Lottie Moon a Southern Baptist missionary to China in history and legend / by Sullivan, Regina D., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"A girl of the Old South" : 1840-1873 -- "Responsible to God and not to man" : 1873-1885 -- The "disorderly" walk : 1886-1891 -- Creating a female public : 1889-1899 -- Creating the "Lottie Moon story" : 1900-1912 and beyond.…”
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Places in the bone a memoir / by Dine, Carol

Table of Contents: “…The tape in the drawer -- The locked box -- Bad girls -- The woman in my poem -- Treatments -- Sisters -- Reconstruction -- The mahogany box -- Talking to God -- Exile -- Dear mother -- Places in the bone -- A chain of women -- Lovers and sons -- In remission -- The lighthouse.…”
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Soul searching the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers / by Smith, Christian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Two baptist girls -- Mapping the big picture -- Spiritual seekers, the disengaged, and religiously devoted teens -- God, religion, whatever-on moralistic therapeutic deism -- American adolescent religion in social context -- On Catholic teens -- Adolescent religion and life outcomes.…”
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Soul searching the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers / by Smith, Christian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Two baptist girls -- Mapping the big picture -- Spiritual seekers, the disengaged, and religiously devoted teens -- God, religion, whatever-on moralistic therapeutic deism -- American adolescent religion in social context -- On Catholic teens -- Adolescent religion and life outcomes.…”
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Fast-talking dames by DiBattista, Maria, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 East-Talking Dames -- 2 Female Pygmalions -- 3 .Blonde Bombshells: Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, -- :and Ginger Rogers -- 4 My Favorte Brunettes: Myrna Loy, Jean Arthur, -- '.and.Claudette Colbert -- Missing n: Brining Up Baby -- T LdyD enDue Due and The Awful Truth -- FemaleRampant: His Girl Friday -- The LadyEveand the Female Con -- Conclusion:ldes Born Yesterday.…”
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Rūmī and the hermeneutics of eroticism by Tourage, Mahdi

Table of Contents: “…The Bawdy tales of the Mathnawī in the context of Persian mystical poetry -- The nexus between esotericism and eroticism -- Phallocentric esotericism in the tale of the slave girl who satisfied her sexual urges with her mistress's donkey -- The phallus and the subject -- The hermeneutics of eroticism -- Visions of esoteric secrets in two miniature paintings of the Mathnawī's Bawdy tales.…”
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Sweating saris Indian dance as transnational labor / by Srinivasan, Priya, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Performing ethnographic failure -- Transnational hauntings of the oriental dancing girl -- St. Denis and the Nachwalis -- Entering the archive -- Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts -- Negotiating cultural nationalism and minority citizenship -- Manufacturing of the Indian dancer through off-shore labor.…”
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Fears and fantasies modernity, gender, and the rural-urban divide / by Murphy, Kate, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Urban fears and rural fantasies in the early twentieth century : the Australian and transnational contexts -- "Very decidedly decadent" : the birth rate in the rural-urban discourse -- Purity and impurity : venereal disease, the "girl problem" and the rural-urban divide -- "The modern idea is to bring the country into the city" : urban reformers and the ideal of rurality -- The "most dependable element of any country's manhood" : the modern rural space and masculinity -- The reconceptualization of the rural-urban divide, 1900-1930.…”
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Rūmī and the hermeneutics of eroticism by Tourage, Mahdi

Table of Contents: “…The Bawdy tales of the Mathnawī in the context of Persian mystical poetry -- The nexus between esotericism and eroticism -- Phallocentric esotericism in the tale of the slave girl who satisfied her sexual urges with her mistress's donkey -- The phallus and the subject -- The hermeneutics of eroticism -- Visions of esoteric secrets in two miniature paintings of the Mathnawī's Bawdy tales.…”
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