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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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Intimacy in America dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / by Coviello, Peter

Table of Contents: “…-- Intimate property : race and the civics of self-relation -- The melancholy of little girls : Poe, pedophilia, and the logic of slavery -- Bowels and fear : nationalism, sodomy, and whiteness in Moby-Dick -- Loving strangers : intimacy and nationality in Whitman -- Epilogue : nation mourns.…”
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Intimacy in America dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / by Coviello, Peter

Table of Contents: “…-- Intimate property : race and the civics of self-relation -- The melancholy of little girls : Poe, pedophilia, and the logic of slavery -- Bowels and fear : nationalism, sodomy, and whiteness in Moby-Dick -- Loving strangers : intimacy and nationality in Whitman -- Epilogue : nation mourns.…”
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Judah Halevi and his circle of Hebrew poets in Granada by Brener, Ann, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…First contacts between Judah Halevi and Moses ibn Ezra -- Judah Halevi's letter to Moses ibn Ezra -- First contacts with Judah ibn Ghayyat -- A star is born : Judah Halevi in Granada -- The poetry of wine-drinking parties -- The poet's workshop -- Hebrew boon-companions as poets for Jewish occasions -- "The girl from Granada" : Granada as metaphor and place.…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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The princess story modeling the feminine in twentieth-century American fiction and film / by Rothschild, Sarah, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- A little princess: a first wave feminist girl -- Disney's first princess stories -- Second-wave feminists and ideologically intent princess stories -- Disney's "feminist" princess stories -- The third-wave princess story: a redefinition -- Romance and the princess' continuing relevance.…”
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Erotic grotesque nonsense the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-2008

Table of Contents: “…Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.…”
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Pegasus descending : a Dave Robicheaux novel / by Burke, James Lee

The princess story modeling the feminine in twentieth-century American fiction and film / by Rothschild, Sarah, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- A little princess: a first wave feminist girl -- Disney's first princess stories -- Second-wave feminists and ideologically intent princess stories -- Disney's "feminist" princess stories -- The third-wave princess story: a redefinition -- Romance and the princess' continuing relevance.…”
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Leaving home a Hollywood blacklisted writer's years abroad / by Edwards, Anne, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…The departure -- An American in a queen's land -- In a London kind of fog -- A dream is born -- Gentlemen don't always prefer blonds -- "My kid seems to like your kid" -- "Everything in life is a gamble" -- A time for decision and Norman Mailer -- Love and other emotions -- "Funny girl" -- Hollywood calling -- A question of adultery -- The end of an affair -- Judy, Judy, Judy! …”
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Pegasus descending : a Dave Robicheaux novel / by Burke, James Lee

Judah Halevi and his circle of Hebrew poets in Granada by Brener, Ann, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…First contacts between Judah Halevi and Moses ibn Ezra -- Judah Halevi's letter to Moses ibn Ezra -- First contacts with Judah ibn Ghayyat -- A star is born : Judah Halevi in Granada -- The poetry of wine-drinking parties -- The poet's workshop -- Hebrew boon-companions as poets for Jewish occasions -- "The girl from Granada" : Granada as metaphor and place.…”
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Leaving home a Hollywood blacklisted writer's years abroad / by Edwards, Anne, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…The departure -- An American in a queen's land -- In a London kind of fog -- A dream is born -- Gentlemen don't always prefer blonds -- "My kid seems to like your kid" -- "Everything in life is a gamble" -- A time for decision and Norman Mailer -- Love and other emotions -- "Funny girl" -- Hollywood calling -- A question of adultery -- The end of an affair -- Judy, Judy, Judy! …”
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The war on human trafficking U.S. policy assessed / by DeStefano, Anthony M.

Table of Contents: “…The barrio girls -- The emerging issue -- The global response -- "We need this bill" -- The learning curve -- The lady from Pitesti -- Finding Leku -- Sweat, toil, and tears -- Sexual slavery : the immigrant's gilded cage -- New initiatives, more controversy -- The bully pulpit -- Measuring effectiveness -- Final thoughts.…”
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The war on human trafficking U.S. policy assessed / by DeStefano, Anthony M.

Table of Contents: “…The barrio girls -- The emerging issue -- The global response -- "We need this bill" -- The learning curve -- The lady from Pitesti -- Finding Leku -- Sweat, toil, and tears -- Sexual slavery : the immigrant's gilded cage -- New initiatives, more controversy -- The bully pulpit -- Measuring effectiveness -- Final thoughts.…”
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Blue collar, theoretically a post-marxist approach to working class literature / by Lavelle, John F., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The praxis of class -- A study in new working-class studies -- A review of the discourse of working-class literature -- Postmarxist theories of class -- Postmodern/poststructuralist theories of class and a theory of the working class -- A working-class reading of Maggie: A girl of the streets and The great gatsby.…”
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Blue collar, theoretically a post-marxist approach to working class literature / by Lavelle, John F., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The praxis of class -- A study in new working-class studies -- A review of the discourse of working-class literature -- Postmarxist theories of class -- Postmodern/poststructuralist theories of class and a theory of the working class -- A working-class reading of Maggie: A girl of the streets and The great gatsby.…”
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Behind every choice is a story by Feldt, Gloria, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The talk -- Strong girl, jelly woman -- "He told me not to tell" -- Pierced ears -- Jelly woman to handsome princess -- This month's pills or this month's bills? …”
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Women and Islamic revival in a West African town by Masquelier, Adeline Marie, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and Islam in Dogondoutchi -- "Those who pray": religious transformations in the colonial and early postcolonial period -- Debating Muslims, disputed practices: the new public face of Islam -- When charisma comes to town: Malam Awal or the making of a modern saint -- Building a mosque in the home of a spirit: changing topographies of power and piety -- How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth, and women's value -- Fashioning Muslimhood: dress, modesty, and the construction of the virtuous woman -- "The fart does not light the fire": "bad" women, "true" believers, and the reconfiguration of moral domesticity.…”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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