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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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Women of the Washington Press : Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…A new generation -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- World War II shatters precedents-at least for a time -- Parties, power, and protest in the sixties and early seventies -- Clothes, cameras, and determination to move into broadcasting -- A question of equity at the end of the twentieth century -- Women journalists confront today's media challenges.…”
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Women of the Washington Press : Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…A new generation -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- World War II shatters precedents-at least for a time -- Parties, power, and protest in the sixties and early seventies -- Clothes, cameras, and determination to move into broadcasting -- A question of equity at the end of the twentieth century -- Women journalists confront today's media challenges.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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The consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 / by Lerner, Paul Frederick

Table of Contents: “…Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.…”
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Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education / by Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Unstable as water -- "Mechanical sheep" and "monstrous powers" : John Ruskin's pantomime reality -- "Pretty Frou-Frou" goes demon dancing : performing species and gender in Ruskin's science -- Playground and playhouse : identity performance in Ruskin's education for girls -- Ruskin and the Wilde life : self and other on the millennial stage -- Conclusion : queering Ruskin.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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The consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 / by Lerner, Paul Frederick

Table of Contents: “…Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.…”
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Performing the Victorian : John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education / by Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Unstable as water -- "Mechanical sheep" and "monstrous powers" : John Ruskin's pantomime reality -- "Pretty Frou-Frou" goes demon dancing : performing species and gender in Ruskin's science -- Playground and playhouse : identity performance in Ruskin's education for girls -- Ruskin and the Wilde life : self and other on the millennial stage -- Conclusion : queering Ruskin.…”
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Race Characters : Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream / by Rana, Swati

Table of Contents: “…Ameen Rihani: the hyperproduction of character -- Jose Garcia Villa's book of grotesques: character and compulsion -- Many parts of Pocho: the discontinuous characters of Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Building American character: Dalip Singh Saund's model of minority -- Paule Marshall's Brown girls: structures of character -- The old constellation.…”
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Race Characters : Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream / by Rana, Swati

Table of Contents: “…Ameen Rihani: the hyperproduction of character -- Jose Garcia Villa's book of grotesques: character and compulsion -- Many parts of Pocho: the discontinuous characters of Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Building American character: Dalip Singh Saund's model of minority -- Paule Marshall's Brown girls: structures of character -- The old constellation.…”
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Acting for America movie stars of the 1980s /

Table of Contents: “…Robert De Niro: star as actor auteur / Aaron Baker -- Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger: androgynous macho men / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek: country girls / William Brown -- Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise: rebellion and conformity / Michael DeAngelis -- Michael J. …”
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Acting for America movie stars of the 1980s /

Table of Contents: “…Robert De Niro: star as actor auteur / Aaron Baker -- Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger: androgynous macho men / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek: country girls / William Brown -- Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise: rebellion and conformity / Michael DeAngelis -- Michael J. …”
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Erotic Coleridge women, love, and the law against divorce / by Taylor, Anya

Table of Contents: “…"Christabel" and the vulnerability of girls -- 6. Sara Hutchinson : love and reading -- 7. …”
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Shake terribly the earth : stories from an Appalachian family / by Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…O glorious love -- Shorn -- Through a Train window -- My dead-grandmother essay -- Scissors -- Ghost siblings -- Garbage-bag charity -- At his feet as dead -- Give 'em Jesus -- Hot girls in short skirts -- Shake terribly the earth -- November leaves -- Boat stories: three generations -- The Tricia has crashed -- Kite string.…”
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Shake terribly the earth : stories from an Appalachian family / by Childers, Sarah Beth, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…O glorious love -- Shorn -- Through a Train window -- My dead-grandmother essay -- Scissors -- Ghost siblings -- Garbage-bag charity -- At his feet as dead -- Give 'em Jesus -- Hot girls in short skirts -- Shake terribly the earth -- November leaves -- Boat stories: three generations -- The Tricia has crashed -- Kite string.…”
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Erotic Coleridge women, love, and the law against divorce / by Taylor, Anya

Table of Contents: “…"Christabel" and the vulnerability of girls -- 6. Sara Hutchinson : love and reading -- 7. …”
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Breaking the silence toward a Black male feminist criticism / by Ikard, David, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Love Jones : a black male feminist critique of Chester Himes's If he hollers let him go -- Black patriarchy and the dilemma of black women's complicity in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- "Killing the white girl first" : understanding the politics of black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- "So much of what we know ain't so" : the other gender in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters -- "Like a butterfly in a hurricane" : reconceptualizing black gendered resistance in Walter Mosley's Always outnumbered, always outgunned and Walkin' the dog.…”
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Musical meaning and human values

Table of Contents: “…Observations on the recorded legacy of the B♭ piano concerto, op. 83 / Walter Frisch -- The civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The girl of the golden west / Richard Leppert -- A farewell, a femme fatale, and a film : three awkward moments in twentieth-century music / Peter Franklin -- "Pour out ... forgiveness like a wine" : can music "say an existence is wrong"? …”
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The dyadic developmental psychotherapy casebook

Table of Contents: “…/ Geraldine Casswell, M.Sc ClinPsy -- Integration in dyadic developmental psychotherapy : Amran's story / Karen Sik, MClinPsy -- Endings / Sian Phillips, PhD -- The girl who becomes aggressive / Arthur Becker-Weidman, PhD.…”
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