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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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Reading The L word outing contemporary television /

Table of Contents: “…/ Kathy Belge -- What is a straight girl to do? Ivan's serenade, Kit's dilemma / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Is she man enough? …”
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Economic evolution and revolution in historical time

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Inequality and institutions in twentieth-century America / Frank Levy and Peter Temin -- The unexpected long-run impact of the minimum wage : an educational cascade / Richard Sutch -- America's first culinary revolution, or how a girl from Gopher Prairie came to dine on eggs foo yong / Susan B. …”
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Dare : straight talk on confidence, courage, and career for women in charge / by Blalock, Becky, 1955-

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Orca Soundings resource guide : teen fiction for reluctant readers / by Geye, Susan

Table of Contents: “…. -- Juice -- Kicked out -- Learning to fly -- Lockdown -- Middle row -- My time as Caz Hazard -- No more pranks -- No problem -- One more step -- Overdrive -- Pain & wastings -- Refuge Cove -- Responsible -- Riley Park -- Saving Grace -- Scum -- Snitch -- Something girl -- Spiral -- Sticks and stones -- Stuffed -- Tell -- Thunderbowl -- Tough trails -- The trouble with Liberty -- Truth -- Wave warrior -- Who owns Kelly Paddik? …”
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Economic evolution and revolution in historical time

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Inequality and institutions in twentieth-century America / Frank Levy and Peter Temin -- The unexpected long-run impact of the minimum wage : an educational cascade / Richard Sutch -- America's first culinary revolution, or how a girl from Gopher Prairie came to dine on eggs foo yong / Susan B. …”
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Dare : straight talk on confidence, courage, and career for women in charge / by Blalock, Becky, 1955-

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Orca Soundings resource guide : teen fiction for reluctant readers / by Geye, Susan

Table of Contents: “…. -- Juice -- Kicked out -- Learning to fly -- Lockdown -- Middle row -- My time as Caz Hazard -- No more pranks -- No problem -- One more step -- Overdrive -- Pain & wastings -- Refuge Cove -- Responsible -- Riley Park -- Saving Grace -- Scum -- Snitch -- Something girl -- Spiral -- Sticks and stones -- Stuffed -- Tell -- Thunderbowl -- Tough trails -- The trouble with Liberty -- Truth -- Wave warrior -- Who owns Kelly Paddik? …”
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I Know That You Know That I Know : Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie / by Butte, George, 1947-

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Settlers of Unassigned Lands / by McLeod, Charles, 1975-

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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Reading The L word outing contemporary television /

Table of Contents: “…/ Kathy Belge -- What is a straight girl to do? Ivan's serenade, Kit's dilemma / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Is she man enough? …”
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I Know That You Know That I Know : Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie / by Butte, George, 1947-

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Settlers of Unassigned Lands / by McLeod, Charles, 1975-

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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Women who offend

Table of Contents: “…Malloch -- Working with girls and young women / Susan Batchelor and Michele Burman.…”
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Serenity found more unauthorized essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly universe /

Table of Contents: “…Catching up with the future / Orson Scott Card -- Mars needs women / Maggie Burns -- Girls, guns, gags / Natalie Haynes -- River Tam and the weaponized women of the Whedonverse / Michael Marano -- I, Malcolm / Nathan Fillion -- Freedom in an unfree world / P. …”
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The gender of reparations unsettling sexual hierarchies while redressing human rights violations /

Table of Contents: “…Gender and violence in focus : a background for gender justice in reparations / Margaret Urban Walker -- The gender of reparations in transitional societies / Ruth Rubio-Marín -- Reparation of sexual and reproductive violence : moving from codification to implementation / Colleen Duggan and Ruth Jacobson -- Reparations as a means for recognizing and addressing crimes and grave rights violations against girls and boys during situations of armed conflict and under authoritarian and dictatorial regimes / Dyan Mazurana and Khristopher Carlson -- Repairing family members : gross human rights violations and communities of harm / Ruth Rubio-Marín, Clara Sandoval, and Catalina Díaz -- Tort theory, microfinance, and gender equity convergent in pecuniary reparations / Anita Bernstein -- Gender, memorialization, and symbolic reparations / Brandon Hamber and Ingrid Palmary -- Gender and collective reparations in the aftermath of conflict and political repression / Ruth Rubio-Marín.…”
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The gender of reparations unsettling sexual hierarchies while redressing human rights violations /

Table of Contents: “…Gender and violence in focus : a background for gender justice in reparations / Margaret Urban Walker -- The gender of reparations in transitional societies / Ruth Rubio-Marín -- Reparation of sexual and reproductive violence : moving from codification to implementation / Colleen Duggan and Ruth Jacobson -- Reparations as a means for recognizing and addressing crimes and grave rights violations against girls and boys during situations of armed conflict and under authoritarian and dictatorial regimes / Dyan Mazurana and Khristopher Carlson -- Repairing family members : gross human rights violations and communities of harm / Ruth Rubio-Marín, Clara Sandoval, and Catalina Díaz -- Tort theory, microfinance, and gender equity convergent in pecuniary reparations / Anita Bernstein -- Gender, memorialization, and symbolic reparations / Brandon Hamber and Ingrid Palmary -- Gender and collective reparations in the aftermath of conflict and political repression / Ruth Rubio-Marín.…”
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