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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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Hammered Dulcimer / by Williams, Lisa, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The direction of shadow -- Sunday morning -- Interruption of flight -- Yellow bird -- What the wind said to the girl who was afraid -- The fall -- The tenderness -- The hammered dulcimer -- Complaint -- Eve, after eating -- Man walking -- Black horses -- The growth -- Manners, 1977 -- A spider -- The man by the river -- Banquet -- To night -- On the nature of beauty -- Romantic relief -- Negation -- Landscape -- A wind in place -- Crater -- On a worm descending a thread -- A story of swans -- God put the noose around my neck -- The grasshopper -- The end of spring -- In the abstract -- Ambivalence -- The chant -- A forward spring -- Rattlesnake -- In the valley -- After a line of Plato.…”
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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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Hammered Dulcimer / by Williams, Lisa, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The direction of shadow -- Sunday morning -- Interruption of flight -- Yellow bird -- What the wind said to the girl who was afraid -- The fall -- The tenderness -- The hammered dulcimer -- Complaint -- Eve, after eating -- Man walking -- Black horses -- The growth -- Manners, 1977 -- A spider -- The man by the river -- Banquet -- To night -- On the nature of beauty -- Romantic relief -- Negation -- Landscape -- A wind in place -- Crater -- On a worm descending a thread -- A story of swans -- God put the noose around my neck -- The grasshopper -- The end of spring -- In the abstract -- Ambivalence -- The chant -- A forward spring -- Rattlesnake -- In the valley -- After a line of Plato.…”
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Pride in the projects teens building identities in urban contexts / by Deutsch, Nancy L.

Table of Contents: “…"There are birds in the projects": understanding the ecology of adolescent development in urban America -- "I give people a lot of respect": the self in interpersonal relationships -- "I never thought kids would look up to someone like me": Lorenzo's story -- "I can't act ghetto in the ghetto no more": self, society, and social categories -- "I've never seen any dark-skinned girls in videos": Nicole's story -- "I can't lose to no girl, man": the gendered self -- "Manly, take charge, the head man, the king": John's story -- "If I never came here I'd be irresponsible, like a little kid": after-school programs as sites of development and identity construction.…”
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Pride in the projects teens building identities in urban contexts / by Deutsch, Nancy L.

Table of Contents: “…"There are birds in the projects": understanding the ecology of adolescent development in urban America -- "I give people a lot of respect": the self in interpersonal relationships -- "I never thought kids would look up to someone like me": Lorenzo's story -- "I can't act ghetto in the ghetto no more": self, society, and social categories -- "I've never seen any dark-skinned girls in videos": Nicole's story -- "I can't lose to no girl, man": the gendered self -- "Manly, take charge, the head man, the king": John's story -- "If I never came here I'd be irresponsible, like a little kid": after-school programs as sites of development and identity construction.…”
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Hip hop on film : performance culture, urban space, and genre transformation in the 1980s / by Monteyne, Kimberley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Case for the Hip Hop Musical -- The Sound of the South Bronx: Wild Style Reinvents the Urban Musical -- Hip Hoppers and Valley Girls: The Economic and Racial Structuring of Youth Cinema in the 1980s -- Flashdance: Breaking, Ballet, and the Representation of Race and Gender -- Conclusion.…”
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Hip hop on film : performance culture, urban space, and genre transformation in the 1980s / by Monteyne, Kimberley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Case for the Hip Hop Musical -- The Sound of the South Bronx: Wild Style Reinvents the Urban Musical -- Hip Hoppers and Valley Girls: The Economic and Racial Structuring of Youth Cinema in the 1980s -- Flashdance: Breaking, Ballet, and the Representation of Race and Gender -- Conclusion.…”
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Women healing/healing women the genderization of healing in early Christianity / by Wainwright, Elaine Mary, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Her home and his household -- Pharmaka and magica -- Religious healing -- Hygeia and Asclepius -- Women healing in biblical Judaism -- Telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Mark -- The Markan world of healing -- A fevered woman is raised up to diakonia (Mark 1:29-31) -- A young girl and a woman with a blood flow are healed (Mark 5:21-43) -- A daughter is healed of an unclean spirit (7:24-31) -- Healing women/women healing in the Markan health care system : a summary -- A woman pours out healing ointment (Mark 14:3-9) -- Re-telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Matthew -- Re-telling the raising up of Peter's mother-in-law to diakonia (Matt. 8:14-15) -- Re-telling the young girl raised and the woman saved (Matt. 9:18-26) -- A demon-possessed daughter is healed (Matt. 15:21-28) -- Retelling the pouring out of healing ointment (Matt. 26:6-13) -- Women cured of evil spirits and infirmities : the gospel of Luke -- Women healed of evil spirits and infirmities (Luke 8:1-3) -- Another woman healed for diakonia? …”
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Women healing/healing women the genderization of healing in early Christianity / by Wainwright, Elaine Mary, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Her home and his household -- Pharmaka and magica -- Religious healing -- Hygeia and Asclepius -- Women healing in biblical Judaism -- Telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Mark -- The Markan world of healing -- A fevered woman is raised up to diakonia (Mark 1:29-31) -- A young girl and a woman with a blood flow are healed (Mark 5:21-43) -- A daughter is healed of an unclean spirit (7:24-31) -- Healing women/women healing in the Markan health care system : a summary -- A woman pours out healing ointment (Mark 14:3-9) -- Re-telling stories of women healing/healing women : the gospel of Matthew -- Re-telling the raising up of Peter's mother-in-law to diakonia (Matt. 8:14-15) -- Re-telling the young girl raised and the woman saved (Matt. 9:18-26) -- A demon-possessed daughter is healed (Matt. 15:21-28) -- Retelling the pouring out of healing ointment (Matt. 26:6-13) -- Women cured of evil spirits and infirmities : the gospel of Luke -- Women healed of evil spirits and infirmities (Luke 8:1-3) -- Another woman healed for diakonia? …”
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Portrayals of children in popular culture : fleeting images /

Table of Contents: “…About this book / VIBIANA BOWMAN CVETKOVIC AND DEBBIE OLSON -- Print and the web -- The girl you've always wanted to be! : girl power and commodification in teen magazines / Caryn Murphy -- Children and media in parenting magazines / Amy Franzini -- Making kids sexy : sexualized youth, adult anxieties and Abercrombie and Fitch / Stephen Gennaro -- Configuring childhood on the web / Katie Elson Anderson -- Television -- Pearly whites : the imagery of teeth in Peter Pan, elite figure skating, gymnastics, and toddler beauty pageants / Beth Nardella -- Conceptualizing childhood in the Korean education the korean education broadcasting system (EBS) : a critical analysis of Pororo / LENA LEE -- Accidental deaths : the violence of representing childhood in law & order : special victims unit / MORGAN GENEVIEVE BLUE -- Better multiculturalism through technology : Dora the explorer and the training of the preschool viewer(s) / Drew Chappell -- Film -- Making mischief of one kind or another : turning literary rebellion into film reminiscence in where the wild things are / Michelle Ann Abate -- They don't really care what happens to me : divorce, family life and children's emotional worlds in 1950s' British cinema / Janet Fink -- Representations of children in Pixar films : / 1995-2008 / Iris Shepard -- Little Burton Blue : Tim Burton and the product(ion) of color in the fairy tale films the nightmare before Christmas (1993) and the corpse bride (2005) / Debbie Olson -- Childhood in war and violence : turtles can fly and the kite runner / Lan Dong -- Spelling out racial difference : moving beyond the inspirational discourses in Akeelah and the bee / Kathryn E. …”
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Portrayals of children in popular culture : fleeting images /

Table of Contents: “…About this book / VIBIANA BOWMAN CVETKOVIC AND DEBBIE OLSON -- Print and the web -- The girl you've always wanted to be! : girl power and commodification in teen magazines / Caryn Murphy -- Children and media in parenting magazines / Amy Franzini -- Making kids sexy : sexualized youth, adult anxieties and Abercrombie and Fitch / Stephen Gennaro -- Configuring childhood on the web / Katie Elson Anderson -- Television -- Pearly whites : the imagery of teeth in Peter Pan, elite figure skating, gymnastics, and toddler beauty pageants / Beth Nardella -- Conceptualizing childhood in the Korean education the korean education broadcasting system (EBS) : a critical analysis of Pororo / LENA LEE -- Accidental deaths : the violence of representing childhood in law & order : special victims unit / MORGAN GENEVIEVE BLUE -- Better multiculturalism through technology : Dora the explorer and the training of the preschool viewer(s) / Drew Chappell -- Film -- Making mischief of one kind or another : turning literary rebellion into film reminiscence in where the wild things are / Michelle Ann Abate -- They don't really care what happens to me : divorce, family life and children's emotional worlds in 1950s' British cinema / Janet Fink -- Representations of children in Pixar films : / 1995-2008 / Iris Shepard -- Little Burton Blue : Tim Burton and the product(ion) of color in the fairy tale films the nightmare before Christmas (1993) and the corpse bride (2005) / Debbie Olson -- Childhood in war and violence : turtles can fly and the kite runner / Lan Dong -- Spelling out racial difference : moving beyond the inspirational discourses in Akeelah and the bee / Kathryn E. …”
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Dancing from the heart movement, gender, and Cook Islands globalization / by Alexeyeff, Kalissa

Table of Contents: “…Are Karioi, houses of entertainment : dance in history -- The politics of contemporary dance -- Shy girls and show-offs : dancing local values -- Paramount queens : femininity and global/local dissonance -- Outing : dancing after dark -- Over the reef : dance in a time of transition.…”
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Ambivalent encounters childhood, tourism, and social change in Banaras, India / by Huberman, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? …”
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Dancing from the heart movement, gender, and Cook Islands globalization / by Alexeyeff, Kalissa

Table of Contents: “…Are Karioi, houses of entertainment : dance in history -- The politics of contemporary dance -- Shy girls and show-offs : dancing local values -- Paramount queens : femininity and global/local dissonance -- Outing : dancing after dark -- Over the reef : dance in a time of transition.…”
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Ambivalent encounters childhood, tourism, and social change in Banaras, India / by Huberman, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? …”
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Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India / by Huberman, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? …”
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Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance : Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna / by Terpstra, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Down and out and off the streets: sheltering Renaissance children -- Opening a home -- Entering a home: prescriptions and procedures -- Making a home with girls -- Making a home with boys -- Running a home -- Leaving home -- The politics of Renaissance orphanages.…”
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Ambivalent Encounters : Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India / by Huberman, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Children, tourists, and locals -- A tourist town -- Conceptions of children -- Girls and boys on the ghats -- Innocent children or little adults? …”
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