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"Follow the wise" studies in Jewish history and culture in honor of Lee I. Levine /

Table of Contents: “…The ancient synagogue -- Hebrew section -- pt. 1. Sages and patriarchs -- pt. 2. Archaeology, art, and historical geography.…”
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Illusive utopia theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea / by Kim, Suk-Young, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hybridization of performance genres -- Time and space in North Korean performance -- Revival of the state patriarchs -- Model citizens of the family-nation -- Acting like women in North Korea -- Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia -- Conclusion : looking back, moving forward.…”
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Illusive utopia theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea / by Kim, Suk-Young, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hybridization of performance genres -- Time and space in North Korean performance -- Revival of the state patriarchs -- Model citizens of the family-nation -- Acting like women in North Korea -- Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia -- Conclusion : looking back, moving forward.…”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Postnational feminisms postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai / by Ahmad, Hena

Table of Contents: “…Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational -- Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve -- Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day -- Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.…”
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Postnational feminisms postcolonial identities and cosmopolitanism in the works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai / by Ahmad, Hena

Table of Contents: “…Postcolonial third world feminism and the postnational -- Woman, nation and culture in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a sieve -- Resisting the colonial and the patriarchal in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions -- Third world feminism and the nation in Anita Desai's Clear light of day -- Modes of resistance in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes.…”
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Family life in 17th- and 18th-century America by Volo, James M., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The role of family -- Folkways -- Family structure -- The role of father -- Patriarch -- Wise and seasonable counsels -- Educator -- Provider -- Protector -- Estate builder -- The role of mother -- Women as wives -- Women as mothers -- Women as housewives -- The role of children -- Children as family -- Children as learners -- Children as workers -- The role of servants and slaves -- Servants -- Race-based slavery.…”
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Family life in 17th- and 18th-century America by Volo, James M., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The role of family -- Folkways -- Family structure -- The role of father -- Patriarch -- Wise and seasonable counsels -- Educator -- Provider -- Protector -- Estate builder -- The role of mother -- Women as wives -- Women as mothers -- Women as housewives -- The role of children -- Children as family -- Children as learners -- Children as workers -- The role of servants and slaves -- Servants -- Race-based slavery.…”
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A critical introduction to law / by Mansell, Wade

Table of Contents: “…The common sense of law -- Law, order and reality -- Reality, anthropology and dispute resolution -- Making rules, making property and translating disputes -- Defining disputes and comprehending the world -- Women and subordination -- Patriarchal relations and marriage -- Men, women, work and law -- The wider implications of the rule of law -- Legitimation, sovereignty and globalisation -- Equality and the rule of law -- Reconsiderations.…”

A critical introduction to law / by Mansell, Wade

Table of Contents: “…The common sense of law -- Law, order and reality -- Reality, anthropology and dispute resolution -- Making rules, making property and translating disputes -- Defining disputes and comprehending the world -- Women and subordination -- Patriarchal relations and marriage -- Men, women, work and law -- The wider implications of the rule of law -- Legitimation, sovereignty and globalisation -- Equality and the rule of law -- Reconsiderations.…”

Ancient Israel : a short history from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Temple /

Table of Contents: “…The Patriarchal Age / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- Israel in Egypt / Nahum M. …”

Ancient Israel : a short history from Abraham to the Roman destruction of the Temple /

Table of Contents: “…The Patriarchal Age / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. -- Israel in Egypt / Nahum M. …”

Manichaean delirium decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / by Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī

Table of Contents: “…In the shoes of the colonized -- A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch -- President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury -- Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue -- The Qadis and Mahmoud M. …”
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Manichaean delirium decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / by Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī

Table of Contents: “…In the shoes of the colonized -- A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch -- President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury -- Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue -- The Qadis and Mahmoud M. …”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Mythos and Ethos -- Kinship, place, and story types -- Matrimonial alliance in Biblical narrative -- Withdrawn-woman narratives -- Central marriage narratives -- Redemption narratives -- Mythos of patriarchal succession -- Threats to lineage continuity -- Violations of patriarchal authority -- Validations of the lineage -- Justice in the resolution of conflict V. …”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Mythos and Ethos -- Kinship, place, and story types -- Matrimonial alliance in Biblical narrative -- Withdrawn-woman narratives -- Central marriage narratives -- Redemption narratives -- Mythos of patriarchal succession -- Threats to lineage continuity -- Violations of patriarchal authority -- Validations of the lineage -- Justice in the resolution of conflict V. …”
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In Scripture the first stories of Jewish sexual identities / by Lefkovitz, Lori Hope, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge and nakedness : Eve in the garden of signs -- Sarah's laughter : matriarchal incoherence and the vexed sign of woman -- Passing as a man : patriarchal gender performances -- Leah behind the veil : sex with sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen -- Coats and tales : Joseph and myths of Jewish masculinity -- Miriam's fluid identity -- Bedrooms and battlefields : command performances of femininity -- Other boundary crossings : of talking beasts and bodies fragmented -- Oy! …”
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In Scripture the first stories of Jewish sexual identities / by Lefkovitz, Lori Hope, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge and nakedness : Eve in the garden of signs -- Sarah's laughter : matriarchal incoherence and the vexed sign of woman -- Passing as a man : patriarchal gender performances -- Leah behind the veil : sex with sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen -- Coats and tales : Joseph and myths of Jewish masculinity -- Miriam's fluid identity -- Bedrooms and battlefields : command performances of femininity -- Other boundary crossings : of talking beasts and bodies fragmented -- Oy! …”
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Early Christian biographies lives of St. Cyprian / by Pontius, Saint, Deacon of Carthage, d. ca. 260

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