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Qualitative inquiry and the politics of advocacy

Table of Contents: “…: an exploration and critique / Kathy Charmaz -- Pulling together : postmodernism and multiple method research / Nigel Fielding -- Vulnerability and the politics of advocacy : challenges for qualitative inquiry using multiple methods / Uwe Flick -- Politics -- Writing against othering / Michal Krumer-Nevo -- Ecoaesthetics : critical arts-based research and environmental advocacy / Susan Finley -- The production of girl life / Jean Halley -- "I read the news today, oh boy-- " the war on public workers / H. …”
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The crime fiction handbook by Messent, Peter B.

Table of Contents: “…Ripley; Chester Himes : Cotton comes to Harlem; Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö : The laughing policeman; James Ellroy : The black dahlia; Thomas Harris : The silence of the lambs; Patricia Cornwell : Unnatural exposure; Ian Rankin : The naming of the dead; Stieg Larsson : The girl with the dragon tattoo.…”
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Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / by Draitser, Emil, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…-- Friends and enemies -- The girl of my dreams -- How they laugh in Odessa -- Papa and the Soviets -- A dependent -- Without declarations -- Who's who -- A strange orange -- Who are you? …”
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Conducting psychological assessments : a guide for practitioners / by Wright, A. Jordan

Table of Contents: “…. -- Chapter 11: An Anxious Girl: Heather Daltry. -- Chapter 12: An Aggressive Boy: Christopher Santiago. -- References.…”

Literary Cash unauthorized writings inspired by the legendary Johnny Cash /

Table of Contents: “…Hoffman ; The walls, Texas : 1987 / Amanda Nowlin-O'Banion ; The snow chaser / Peter Cashwell ; Terminal / Kyle Duane Hebert ; Beat back the drowning tides / Emily Reardon ; The girl from Boulder Ridge / Vernell Hackett ; The train stops / Adam-Troy Castro ; Does it ever end? …”
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A cheerful and comfortable faith Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia / by Winner, Lauren F.

Table of Contents: “…With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia -- Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation -- People of the book: liturgical culture and the domestic uses of prayer books -- Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table -- To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning -- Epilogue. …”
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A cheerful and comfortable faith Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia / by Winner, Lauren F.

Table of Contents: “…With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia -- Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation -- People of the book: liturgical culture and the domestic uses of prayer books -- Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table -- To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning -- Epilogue. …”
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Pregnancy and power a short history of reproductive politics in America / by Solinger, Rickie, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Wade affected fetuses, teenage girls, prisoners, and ordinary women, 1980 to the present.…”
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Alien constructions science fiction and feminist thought / by Melzer, Patricia, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Butler -- Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection -- Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual) reality in The matrix -- The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls -- Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. …”
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Worries of the heart widows, family, and community in Kenya / by Mutongi, Kenda

Table of Contents: “…-- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance.…”
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Encounters in quest of Christian womanhood the Basel Mission in pre- and early colonial Ghana / by Sill, Ulrike

Table of Contents: “…The Basel Women's Mission in the European and the Basel context -- The women involved in Basel Mission encounters on the Gold Coast -- Embodying Christian womanhood : 'African' actors in the Basel Mission -- Christiansborg : acquiring space to propagate Basel femininity -- Akuapem and Akuropon (1) : establishing new spaces -- Akuapem (2) : existing loyalties and new options -- Innovation by women : the case of "six-fingered children" -- Creating a new female space : the Basel Mission girls' boarding schools -- Women's speech in the Basel Mission community and beyond.…”
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Encounters in quest of Christian womanhood the Basel Mission in pre- and early colonial Ghana / by Sill, Ulrike

Table of Contents: “…The Basel Women's Mission in the European and the Basel context -- The women involved in Basel Mission encounters on the Gold Coast -- Embodying Christian womanhood : 'African' actors in the Basel Mission -- Christiansborg : acquiring space to propagate Basel femininity -- Akuapem and Akuropon (1) : establishing new spaces -- Akuapem (2) : existing loyalties and new options -- Innovation by women : the case of "six-fingered children" -- Creating a new female space : the Basel Mission girls' boarding schools -- Women's speech in the Basel Mission community and beyond.…”
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Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Pregnancy and power a short history of reproductive politics in America / by Solinger, Rickie, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Wade affected fetuses, teenage girls, prisoners, and ordinary women, 1980 to the present.…”
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Alien constructions science fiction and feminist thought / by Melzer, Patricia, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Butler -- Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection -- Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual) reality in The matrix -- The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls -- Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. …”
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Worries of the heart widows, family, and community in Kenya / by Mutongi, Kenda

Table of Contents: “…-- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance.…”
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Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Children's rights in Africa : a legal perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Mezmur -- Implementing the girl child's right to education in selected countries in Africa / Lea Mwambene -- Trafficking of children in Africa : an overview of research, international obligations and existing legal provisions / Jacqui Gallinetti and Daksha Kassan -- Intercountry adoption from an African perspective / Trynie Davel -- HIV/AIDS and children's rights in law and policy in Africa / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Benyam D. …”

Desperate measures the life and music of Antonia Padoani Bembo / by Fontijn, Claire Anne, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The life. The girl who sings ; Our Lady of good news -- The music. …”
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Fables of the East selected tales, 1662-1785 /

Table of Contents: “…From The Arabian nights entertainments, 'translated' by Antoine Galland (1704-1715) -- 'The fable of the mouse, that was changed into a little girl' from The fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699) -- 'The history of Commladeve' from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768) -- 'The adventures of Urad' from James Ridley, Tales of the genii (1764) -- 'The history of the Christian eunuch' from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1727) -- Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 12 October 1712 -- Horace Walpole, 'Mi Li, a Chinese fairy tale' from Hieroglyphic tales (1785) -- 'A voyage to Kachemire, the paradise of Indostan' from François Bernier, A continuation of the memories of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oxenberg (1672) -- From The general history of the Mogol Empire, compiled by François Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709) -- From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M...y W...y M...e (1763) -- From Giovanni Paolo Marana, The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1694) -- From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722) -- From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1762).…”
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