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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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Playing smart New York women writers and modern magazine culture / by Keyser, Catherine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Thoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades -- "This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling -- "First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness -- The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics -- "Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics -- Conclusion.…”
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This is not the Ivy League a memoir / by Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939-

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Circles where the head should be poems / by Wilkinson, Caki, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Cosmogony -- Lares and Penates -- Bower bird -- Lady on a unicycle -- Same lady, different unicycle -- The truth about effects -- Genealogy -- Girl under bug zapper -- Portrait of the artist with toothpick bridge -- Itinerant -- Mnemosyne -- Fisher King -- Bildungsroman -- The school by the zoo -- Tactics: a short lesson -- Portrait of the artist with paint-by-numbers -- Svengali deck -- Plot twists -- Flea circus -- Felix culpa -- Epithalamium -- Storm and stress -- Aftermath -- Dead matter -- Assisted living -- Miniatures -- The truth about distance -- A correlated history of synchronity.…”
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The Cramoisy queen a life of Caresse Crosby / by Hamalian, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Spunky little rich girl -- Polly meets Harry -- How Polly became Caresse -- A woman of many trades -- Treasures for the Black Sun Press -- The death of Harry Crosby -- Business or pleasure -- Atlantic crossings -- Mind over matter -- Old friends, new friends -- A woman of influence -- Back in the avant-garde -- Mondialization -- Fame -- A thirty-year plan -- How to run a castle -- Keeping the faith.…”
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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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Playing smart New York women writers and modern magazine culture / by Keyser, Catherine, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Thoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades -- "This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling -- "First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness -- The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics -- "Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics -- Conclusion.…”
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This is not the Ivy League a memoir / by Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Circles where the head should be poems / by Wilkinson, Caki, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Cosmogony -- Lares and Penates -- Bower bird -- Lady on a unicycle -- Same lady, different unicycle -- The truth about effects -- Genealogy -- Girl under bug zapper -- Portrait of the artist with toothpick bridge -- Itinerant -- Mnemosyne -- Fisher King -- Bildungsroman -- The school by the zoo -- Tactics: a short lesson -- Portrait of the artist with paint-by-numbers -- Svengali deck -- Plot twists -- Flea circus -- Felix culpa -- Epithalamium -- Storm and stress -- Aftermath -- Dead matter -- Assisted living -- Miniatures -- The truth about distance -- A correlated history of synchronity.…”
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The Cramoisy queen a life of Caresse Crosby / by Hamalian, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Spunky little rich girl -- Polly meets Harry -- How Polly became Caresse -- A woman of many trades -- Treasures for the Black Sun Press -- The death of Harry Crosby -- Business or pleasure -- Atlantic crossings -- Mind over matter -- Old friends, new friends -- A woman of influence -- Back in the avant-garde -- Mondialization -- Fame -- A thirty-year plan -- How to run a castle -- Keeping the faith.…”
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The rebel / by Nelson, Rhonda

The rebel / by Nelson, Rhonda

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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Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" / by Lennard, John

Table of Contents: “…The abuses of language and girls : Lolita as pornography -- pt. 4. The precisions of science : Lolita as lepidoptery -- pt. 5. …”
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Vladimir Nabokov "Lolita" / by Lennard, John

Table of Contents: “…The abuses of language and girls : Lolita as pornography -- pt. 4. The precisions of science : Lolita as lepidoptery -- pt. 5. …”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Madam Chief Justice : Jean Hoefer Toal of South Carolina /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- "It's a girl" -- You don't start out as chief justice -- Into the twentieth century as a lawyer legislator -- A new associate justice -- An unrelenting judicial warrior in south carolina's video poker wars -- Toal on torts (1987-2014) -- Abbeville county school district v. state : changing south carolinar -- Bringing the courts into the twenty-first century -- Family, friends, and community -- The sisterhood of the ladder : the impact of chief justice toal on the rise in participation of women in the legal profession in south carolina -- Personal reflections collected by amelia waring walker -- The lady's a leader -- The hoefer girls -- Observations of chief justice jean hoefer toal -- From my vantage point -- Destined for the records book -- My first glimpse -- An amazing lady -- Reflections of a law clerk -- National leader -- Heeding the call -- Quintessential south carolinian.…”
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