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Granny D's American century by Haddock, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Book I -- Full Measure -- Steaming into Life : 1928 -- The Birthplace of Liberty, Including My Own -- Castles and Princes -- At Sea -- Bubbles Burst -- Jim's Girl -- The Bohemians -- Surviving by Our Wits -- The Main Course of Life -- Back to Harvard -- Book II -- On the Road Again -- Alligators, Mermaids, Etcetera -- Wake Up and Live -- From the Very Balcony -- Finding Life Everywhere -- The Wind Shifts -- Shared Courage -- A Campaign from Our Town -- Lessons from My Century -- Last Delivered Speech -- Last Undelivered Speech -- Closing Note to the Reader.…”
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Identity in metamorphosis an anthology of writings from Zimbabwe students /

Table of Contents: “…One man's history / Fortune Madzime -- 'Trapped between two cultures' : schools, culture and change / Fortune Madzime -- "We want our identity back" : language instruction in the schools / Kundai Moyana -- "Poor working conditions equals poor results" : hardships in rural schools / Fortune Madzime -- "The girl child is not important according to Shona culture" : gender inequality and the schools / Kundai Moyana -- "Not really indigenous" : blacks and whites in Zimbabwe's private schools / Fortune Madzime -- "Undemocratic schools create dull people" : democracy and change in education / Kundai Moyana -- A dialogue -- "Where do we go from here?" …”
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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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Granny D's American century by Haddock, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Book I -- Full Measure -- Steaming into Life : 1928 -- The Birthplace of Liberty, Including My Own -- Castles and Princes -- At Sea -- Bubbles Burst -- Jim's Girl -- The Bohemians -- Surviving by Our Wits -- The Main Course of Life -- Back to Harvard -- Book II -- On the Road Again -- Alligators, Mermaids, Etcetera -- Wake Up and Live -- From the Very Balcony -- Finding Life Everywhere -- The Wind Shifts -- Shared Courage -- A Campaign from Our Town -- Lessons from My Century -- Last Delivered Speech -- Last Undelivered Speech -- Closing Note to the Reader.…”
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Identity in metamorphosis an anthology of writings from Zimbabwe students /

Table of Contents: “…One man's history / Fortune Madzime -- 'Trapped between two cultures' : schools, culture and change / Fortune Madzime -- "We want our identity back" : language instruction in the schools / Kundai Moyana -- "Poor working conditions equals poor results" : hardships in rural schools / Fortune Madzime -- "The girl child is not important according to Shona culture" : gender inequality and the schools / Kundai Moyana -- "Not really indigenous" : blacks and whites in Zimbabwe's private schools / Fortune Madzime -- "Undemocratic schools create dull people" : democracy and change in education / Kundai Moyana -- A dialogue -- "Where do we go from here?" …”
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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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Paid to party working time and emotion in direct home sales / by Mullaney, Jamie L.

Table of Contents: “…Creating a feel-good business: negotiating the work-family pieces -- From temporal acrobats to architects: flexibility gets a much needed makeover -- Out with the old, in with the new: changing how women feel about work -- The girls' night out: social time and obligation -- Let the games begin: the importance of playing along -- Just not buying it: fielding resistance to DHS.…”
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Reel schools schooling and the nation in Australian cinema / by May, Josephine, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinematic vernacular of Australian schooling -- The silent era: "a school of sentiment" -- High tide of nationalist portrayal 1930s-1960s -- Nation and the girls' boarding school in the 1970s -- Nation and the boys' school in the 1970s -- State high school blues in the early 1980s -- The school film in the late 1980s -- Multicultural nation at school in the 1980s-1990s -- Private school fantasies in the 2000s -- Conclusion.…”
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Paid to party working time and emotion in direct home sales / by Mullaney, Jamie L.

Table of Contents: “…Creating a feel-good business: negotiating the work-family pieces -- From temporal acrobats to architects: flexibility gets a much needed makeover -- Out with the old, in with the new: changing how women feel about work -- The girls' night out: social time and obligation -- Let the games begin: the importance of playing along -- Just not buying it: fielding resistance to DHS.…”
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Reel schools schooling and the nation in Australian cinema / by May, Josephine, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cinematic vernacular of Australian schooling -- The silent era: "a school of sentiment" -- High tide of nationalist portrayal 1930s-1960s -- Nation and the girls' boarding school in the 1970s -- Nation and the boys' school in the 1970s -- State high school blues in the early 1980s -- The school film in the late 1980s -- Multicultural nation at school in the 1980s-1990s -- Private school fantasies in the 2000s -- Conclusion.…”
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Confederate phoenix rebel children and their families in South Carolina / by Drago, Edmund L.

Table of Contents: “…Children as a factor in war strategy -- Boy soldiers and their families -- Childrearing -- "Spilt milk" : three family cameos -- Education and nation building -- "Something for the girls" : marriage customs and girlhood -- "Going up the spout" : converging defeat on the battlefield and home front -- Baptism by fire -- Widows and orphans -- Reconstruction and redemption : the Civil War, part II -- The last phoenix : conflicting legacies, 1890-2007.…”
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Confederate phoenix rebel children and their families in South Carolina / by Drago, Edmund L.

Table of Contents: “…Children as a factor in war strategy -- Boy soldiers and their families -- Childrearing -- "Spilt milk" : three family cameos -- Education and nation building -- "Something for the girls" : marriage customs and girlhood -- "Going up the spout" : converging defeat on the battlefield and home front -- Baptism by fire -- Widows and orphans -- Reconstruction and redemption : the Civil War, part II -- The last phoenix : conflicting legacies, 1890-2007.…”
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Straight edge clean-living youth, hardcore punk, and social change / by Haenfler, Ross

Table of Contents: “…Straight edge 101 -- Straight edge core values -- Straight edge as a social movement -- Positivity versus militancy : struggles within the scene -- Masculinity in contradiction : the two faces of straight edge -- Girls united and divided : women in straight edge -- Life after subculture : how older straight edgers redefine commitment -- Commercialization, the Internet, and the cultic milieu -- Conclusions -- A timeline of straight edge bands.…”
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Africana women writers : performing diaspora, staging healing / by Marzette, DeLinda

Table of Contents: “…Making rite : w/riting renewal in an age of lunacy in selected works of Nicole Werewere Liking -- Coming to voice : navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock -- Diasporic fissures and Afro-Caribbean identity in the plays of Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé -- Who measures the power of woman in spoons and scales : women's worth in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women -- For colored girls : treading storms, discovering rainbows.…”
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The business of women : marriage, family, and entrepreneurship in British Columbia 1901-51 / by Buddle, Melanie, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Businesswomen in British Columbia -- The marriage of business and women : family status and entrepreneurship in British Columbia -- Careers for women : sex segregation in self-employment -- "They are quick, alert, clear-eyed business girls" : the Business and Professional Women's Clubs of British Columbia -- "You have to think like a man and act like a lady" : gender, class, and businesswomen -- Conclusion : "darkened by family obligations" : reflections on the business of women.…”
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Africana women writers : performing diaspora, staging healing / by Marzette, DeLinda

Table of Contents: “…Making rite : w/riting renewal in an age of lunacy in selected works of Nicole Werewere Liking -- Coming to voice : navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock -- Diasporic fissures and Afro-Caribbean identity in the plays of Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé -- Who measures the power of woman in spoons and scales : women's worth in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women -- For colored girls : treading storms, discovering rainbows.…”
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The business of women : marriage, family, and entrepreneurship in British Columbia 1901-51 / by Buddle, Melanie, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Businesswomen in British Columbia -- The marriage of business and women : family status and entrepreneurship in British Columbia -- Careers for women : sex segregation in self-employment -- "They are quick, alert, clear-eyed business girls" : the Business and Professional Women's Clubs of British Columbia -- "You have to think like a man and act like a lady" : gender, class, and businesswomen -- Conclusion : "darkened by family obligations" : reflections on the business of women.…”
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The Graven Image : A Tale of Two Hemispheres / by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921

Table of Contents: “…Henry Flood -- X. Two girls together -- Afterword.…”
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First Ladies and the Press : The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- Early first ladies and the public sphere -- Jackie Kennedy and the construction of Camelot -- First ladies as political helpmates : Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon -- First ladies and feminism : Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter -- First ladies and image-making : Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton as media polarizer -- Laura Bush as emblem of national caring -- Looking ahead.…”
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