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Re-visioning gender in philosophy of religion reason, love and epistemic locatedness / by Anderson, Pamela Sue

Table of Contents: “…Re-visioning gender and the myths of patriarchy -- Gender in philosophy of religion -- Gendering theism and feminism -- Philosophy on and off "the Continent" -- Gendering love in philosophy of religion -- Restoring faith in reason -- Feminist philosophy of religion -- Gender justice and unselfish attention -- Re-visioning love and reason -- Epistemic locatedness: diversity and gender.…”
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Re-visioning gender in philosophy of religion reason, love and epistemic locatedness / by Anderson, Pamela Sue

Table of Contents: “…Re-visioning gender and the myths of patriarchy -- Gender in philosophy of religion -- Gendering theism and feminism -- Philosophy on and off "the Continent" -- Gendering love in philosophy of religion -- Restoring faith in reason -- Feminist philosophy of religion -- Gender justice and unselfish attention -- Re-visioning love and reason -- Epistemic locatedness: diversity and gender.…”
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A New Dawn for the Second Sex : Women's Freedom Practices in World Perspective / by Vintges, Karen

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A New Dawn for the Second Sex : Women's Freedom Practices in World Perspective / by Vintges, Karen

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Women, work, and politics the political economy of gender inequality / by Iversen, Torben

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A political economy approach to gender inequality -- The structure of patriarchy: how bargaining power shapes social norms and political attitudes -- The gender division of labor, or why women work double shifts -- Fertility -- Political preferences -- Gender and political careers: a comparative labor market analysis of female political representation -- Conclusions.…”
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Women, work, and politics the political economy of gender inequality / by Iversen, Torben

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A political economy approach to gender inequality -- The structure of patriarchy: how bargaining power shapes social norms and political attitudes -- The gender division of labor, or why women work double shifts -- Fertility -- Political preferences -- Gender and political careers: a comparative labor market analysis of female political representation -- Conclusions.…”
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Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Disobedient wives and neglectful husbands : marital relations and the first phase of family law reform in Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- Patriarchy, sexuality, and property : the impact of colonial state policies on gender relations in India / Flavia Agnes -- The monotheisms, patriarchy, and the constitutional right to human dignity in Israel / Frances Raday -- Legal pluralism versus a uniform civil code : the continuing debates in India / Manisha Desai -- Institutions and women's rights : religion, the state, and family in Turkey / Zehra F. …”
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Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia

Table of Contents: “…Disobedient wives and neglectful husbands : marital relations and the first phase of family law reform in Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- Patriarchy, sexuality, and property : the impact of colonial state policies on gender relations in India / Flavia Agnes -- The monotheisms, patriarchy, and the constitutional right to human dignity in Israel / Frances Raday -- Legal pluralism versus a uniform civil code : the continuing debates in India / Manisha Desai -- Institutions and women's rights : religion, the state, and family in Turkey / Zehra F. …”
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Making babies, making families what matters most in an age of reproductive technologies, surrogacy, adoption, and same-sex and unwed parents / by Shanley, Mary Lyndon, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Transracial and open adoption : new forms of family relationships -- Fathers' rights, mothers' wrongs, children's needs : unwed fathers and the perpetuation of patriarchy -- A child of our own : against a market in sperm and eggs -- Surrogate motherhood : the limits of contractual freedom -- Lesbian co-mothers, sperm donors and fathers : how many parents can a child have?…”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Making babies, making families what matters most in an age of reproductive technologies, surrogacy, adoption, and same-sex and unwed parents / by Shanley, Mary Lyndon, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Transracial and open adoption : new forms of family relationships -- Fathers' rights, mothers' wrongs, children's needs : unwed fathers and the perpetuation of patriarchy -- A child of our own : against a market in sperm and eggs -- Surrogate motherhood : the limits of contractual freedom -- Lesbian co-mothers, sperm donors and fathers : how many parents can a child have?…”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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We real cool : Black men and masculinity / by hooks, bell, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…About Black men : don't believe the hype -- Plantation patriarchy -- Gangsta culture : a piece of the action -- Schooling Black men -- Don't make me hurt you: black male violence -- It's a dick thing : beyond sexual acting out -- From angry boys to angry me -- Waiting for daddy to come home -- Doing the love do -- Healing the hurt -- The coolness of being real.…”
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We real cool : Black men and masculinity / by hooks, bell, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…About Black men : don't believe the hype -- Plantation patriarchy -- Gangsta culture : a piece of the action -- Schooling Black men -- Don't make me hurt you: black male violence -- It's a dick thing : beyond sexual acting out -- From angry boys to angry me -- Waiting for daddy to come home -- Doing the love do -- Healing the hurt -- The coolness of being real.…”
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The origins of Christian democracy politics and confession in modern Germany / by Mitchell, Maria D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Confessional conflict in German history -- Politics in defeat: the organizational beginnings of Christian democracy -- Christian democratic organization beyond the British zone: priests, Protestants, patriarchy -- Secularism, materialism, and rechristianization: the construction of a Christian democratic ideology -- Antimaterialism applied: ideological positions in the early CDU -- Christian democracy in practice: economic discourse and policy -- The CDU in council: forging economic and cultural policy -- Christian democracy and confessional culture in the Federal Republic -- Conclusion.…”
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The origins of Christian democracy politics and confession in modern Germany / by Mitchell, Maria D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Confessional conflict in German history -- Politics in defeat: the organizational beginnings of Christian democracy -- Christian democratic organization beyond the British zone: priests, Protestants, patriarchy -- Secularism, materialism, and rechristianization: the construction of a Christian democratic ideology -- Antimaterialism applied: ideological positions in the early CDU -- Christian democracy in practice: economic discourse and policy -- The CDU in council: forging economic and cultural policy -- Christian democracy and confessional culture in the Federal Republic -- Conclusion.…”
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Cleansing honor with blood masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 / by Santos, Martha S. (Martha Sofia), 1969-

Table of Contents: “…A brief moment of prosperity : land, opportunity, and autonomy, 1845-70 -- Unruly soldiers and honorable providers : paradoxes of masculinity and state formation in the backlands, 1840s-89 -- Poor but respectable : community, family, and the gendered negotiation of daily life, 1845-89 -- A changing world : deprivation, dislocation, and the disruption of honorable masculinity, 1865-89 -- Masculinity challenged and affirmed : autonomous women, men, and violent patriarchy, 1865-89 -- Of courage and manhood : masculine spaces, violence, and honor, 1865-89.…”
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Cleansing honor with blood masculinity, violence, and power in the backlands of northeast Brazil, 1845-1889 / by Santos, Martha S. (Martha Sofia), 1969-

Table of Contents: “…A brief moment of prosperity : land, opportunity, and autonomy, 1845-70 -- Unruly soldiers and honorable providers : paradoxes of masculinity and state formation in the backlands, 1840s-89 -- Poor but respectable : community, family, and the gendered negotiation of daily life, 1845-89 -- A changing world : deprivation, dislocation, and the disruption of honorable masculinity, 1865-89 -- Masculinity challenged and affirmed : autonomous women, men, and violent patriarchy, 1865-89 -- Of courage and manhood : masculine spaces, violence, and honor, 1865-89.…”
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Braceros migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico / by Cohen, Deborah, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Agriculture, state expectations, and the configuration of citizenship -- Narrating class and nation: agribusiness and the construction of grower narratives -- Manhood, the lure of migration, and contestations of the modern -- Rites of movement, technologies of power: making migrants modern from home to the border -- With hunched back and on bended knee: race, work, and the modern north of the border -- Strikes against solidarity: containing domestic farmworkers' agency -- Border of belonging, border of foreignness: patriarchy, the modern, and making transnational Mexicanness -- Tipping the negotiating hand: state-to-state struggle and the impact of migrant agency.…”
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Braceros migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico / by Cohen, Deborah, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Agriculture, state expectations, and the configuration of citizenship -- Narrating class and nation: agribusiness and the construction of grower narratives -- Manhood, the lure of migration, and contestations of the modern -- Rites of movement, technologies of power: making migrants modern from home to the border -- With hunched back and on bended knee: race, work, and the modern north of the border -- Strikes against solidarity: containing domestic farmworkers' agency -- Border of belonging, border of foreignness: patriarchy, the modern, and making transnational Mexicanness -- Tipping the negotiating hand: state-to-state struggle and the impact of migrant agency.…”
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