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Sport, gender and development : intersections, innovations and future trajectories / by Hayhurst, Lyndsay M. C., Thorpe, Holly, Chawansky, Megan

Table of Contents: “…The ethics of visibilities: Sport for development media portrayals of girls and women -- Chapter 8. Feminist approaches to monitoring, evaluation and learning (mel) / with Nida Ahmad Epilogue / Martha Saavedra.…”
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Women and language essays on gendered communication across media /

Table of Contents: “…Lutz -- When talk meets page : the feminist aesthetic of adapted narration and language play / Melissa Ames -- Blurred boundaries and re-told histories : Julia Alvarez's how the Garc'a girls lost their accents / Sarah Himsel Burcon -- Performative spaces : constructing and instructing gendered behavior -- Bodies in dialogue : performing gender and sexuality in salsa dance / Aleysia Whitmore -- "Tell me, does she talk during sex?" …”
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Women and language essays on gendered communication across media /

Table of Contents: “…Lutz -- When talk meets page : the feminist aesthetic of adapted narration and language play / Melissa Ames -- Blurred boundaries and re-told histories : Julia Alvarez's how the Garc'a girls lost their accents / Sarah Himsel Burcon -- Performative spaces : constructing and instructing gendered behavior -- Bodies in dialogue : performing gender and sexuality in salsa dance / Aleysia Whitmore -- "Tell me, does she talk during sex?" …”
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Reading Sex and the city

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Colossus the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman -- Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton -- From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Jack Good -- Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie -- Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts -- Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins -- An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie -- The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley -- Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... …”
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Black cultural traffic crossroads in global performance and popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…Patrick Johnson -- Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) / Danzy Senna -- The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? …”
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Sex and the citizen interrogating the Caribbean /

Table of Contents: “…Women performing gender and sexuality in Paramaribo, Suriname / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley -- Colonial girl: and what would it be like / Michelle Cliff.…”
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Black cultural traffic crossroads in global performance and popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…Patrick Johnson -- Passing and the problematic of multiracial pride (or, why one mixed girl still answers to Black) / Danzy Senna -- The shadows of texts : will black music and singers sell everything on television? …”
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Sex and the citizen interrogating the Caribbean /

Table of Contents: “…Women performing gender and sexuality in Paramaribo, Suriname / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley -- Colonial girl: and what would it be like / Michelle Cliff.…”
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Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel /

Table of Contents: “…Silences and Voices of Slavery : A escrava Isaura and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 9. The Construction of Pseudo-Modern Individuals in Senhora by Jose de Alencar -- 10. …”
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Reading Sex and the city

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Colossus the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman -- Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton -- From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Jack Good -- Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie -- Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts -- Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins -- An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie -- The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley -- Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... …”
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Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel /

Table of Contents: “…Silences and Voices of Slavery : A escrava Isaura and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 9. The Construction of Pseudo-Modern Individuals in Senhora by Jose de Alencar -- 10. …”
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Mary P. Follett creating democracy, transforming management / by Tonn, Joan C.

Table of Contents: “…A childhood that was rarely happy -- An eager, fearless mind -- What shall we do with our girls? -- Very unusual privileges -- The great milepost and turning point -- The Speaker of the House of Representatives -- To I.L.B. -- Self-realization and service -- Ward 17 -- Substitutes for the saloon, schools, and suffrage -- Private funds for public purposes -- My beloved centres -- The functions, financing, and control of community centers -- The war years -- The new state -- Not neighborhood groups but an integrative group process -- Too good a joke for the world -- Creative experience -- Professional transition, personal tragedy -- You have been extraordinarily helpful to executives -- I am almost at the same moment happy and unhappy -- Prepared to go or stay with equal graciousness.…”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: 'Adeline Mowbray''s distinguished complexion of abolition ; "An unportioned girl of my complexion can ... be a dangerous object" : abolition and the mulatto heiress in England -- Afterword.…”
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Mary P. Follett creating democracy, transforming management / by Tonn, Joan C.

Table of Contents: “…A childhood that was rarely happy -- An eager, fearless mind -- What shall we do with our girls? -- Very unusual privileges -- The great milepost and turning point -- The Speaker of the House of Representatives -- To I.L.B. -- Self-realization and service -- Ward 17 -- Substitutes for the saloon, schools, and suffrage -- Private funds for public purposes -- My beloved centres -- The functions, financing, and control of community centers -- The war years -- The new state -- Not neighborhood groups but an integrative group process -- Too good a joke for the world -- Creative experience -- Professional transition, personal tragedy -- You have been extraordinarily helpful to executives -- I am almost at the same moment happy and unhappy -- Prepared to go or stay with equal graciousness.…”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: 'Adeline Mowbray''s distinguished complexion of abolition ; "An unportioned girl of my complexion can ... be a dangerous object" : abolition and the mulatto heiress in England -- Afterword.…”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- HRH Cleopatra : the last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith -- Glamour girls : Cleomania in mass culture / Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserratá -- Every man's Cleopatra / Giuseppe Pucci -- Cleopatra : the sphinx revisited / Peter Green.…”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- HRH Cleopatra : the last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith -- Glamour girls : Cleomania in mass culture / Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserratá -- Every man's Cleopatra / Giuseppe Pucci -- Cleopatra : the sphinx revisited / Peter Green.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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