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Between women friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / by Marcus, Sharon, 1966-

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The Scientific American book of love, sex, and the brain the neuroscience of how, when, why, and who we love / by Horstman, Judith

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The Battle of Iwo Jima : a resource bibliography and documentary anthology / by Sandberg, Walt, 1935-2004

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Sex & money feminism and political economy in the media /

Table of Contents: “…Byerly -- Weighing the transgressive star body of Shelley Duvall / Justin Wyatt -- Periodical pleasures : magazines for U.S. Latinas / Amy Beer -- Born to shop : teenage women and the marketplace in the postwar United States / Angela R. …”
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Martini, Straight Up : The Classic American Cocktail / by Edmunds, Lowell

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Martini, Straight Up : The Classic American Cocktail / by Edmunds, Lowell

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You Can Help Your Country : English children's work during the Second World War / by Mayall, Berry, Morrow, Virginia

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Among friends engendering the social site of poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Presence in the Poets' Polis: Hippie Phenomenology in Bolinas / Lytle Shaw -- When L=A: Language, Authorship, and Equality in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine / Peter Middleton -- After Literary Community: The Grand Piano and the Politics of Friendship / Barrett Watten -- Between Friendship Network and Literary Movement: Flarf as a Poetics of Sociability / Maria Damon -- Inclinations. …”
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You Can Help Your Country : English children's work during the Second World War / by Mayall, Berry, Morrow, Virginia

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Speaking of death America's new sense of mortality /

Table of Contents: “…death : a close reading of Time magazine's September 11, 2001, special issue / Christina Staudt -- Part II: From awareness to acceptance -- Acceptance of mortality : what is confirmed, what is denied / Michael K. …”
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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? …”
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Images of Dutchness : Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché, 1800-1914 / by Dellmann, Sarah

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Scribbling women & the short story form approaches by American & British women writers /

Table of Contents: “…Meade and ... in the Strand magazine / Winnie Chan -- Naturalism and the short story form in Kate Chopin's "The story of an hour" / Scott D. …”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. …”
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The curious feminist searching for women in a new age of empire / by Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…-- Feminist theorizing from bananas to maneuvers : a conversation between Cynthia Enloe and Marysia Zalewski -- All the men are in the militias, all the women are victims : the politics of masculinity and femininity in nationalist wars -- Spoils of war -- Masculinity as a foreign policy issue -- What if they gave a war-- : a conversation between Cynthia Enloe, Vivian Stromberg, and the editors of Ms. magazine -- Sneak attack : the militarization of U.S. culture -- War-planners rely on women : thoughts from Tokyo -- Feminists keep their eyes on militarized masculinity : wondering how Americans see their male presidents -- Becoming a feminist : Cynthia Enloe in conversation with three British international relations scholars -- Women after wars : puzzles and warnings from Vietnam -- Demilitarization, or more of the same? …”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Noyes -- Fictional feedback : empirical souls and self-deception in the Magazine for empirical psychology and beyond / Michael House -- Fictional feelings : psychological aesthetics and the paradox of tragic pleasure / Tobias Wilke -- Coining a discipline : Lessing, Reimarus, and a science of religion / Stefani Engelstein -- Kin selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle," and the fate of characters in Forster's The longest journey / Daniel Aureliano Newman -- Anatomy collections in and of the mind : science, the body and language in the writings of Durs Grünbein and Thomas Hettche / Peter M. …”
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Images of Dutchness : Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché, 1800-1914 / by Dellmann, Sarah

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Representing Sylvia Plath

Table of Contents: “…'Procrustean identity': Sylvia Plath's women's magazine fiction Luke Ferretter; Part III. Representation: 9. …”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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A taste of power : food and American identities / by Vester, Katharina

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