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Toys and Tools in Pink : Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology / by Colatrella, Carol

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cultural narratives and the "leaky pipeline" -- The ethics of feminist science -- Female criminals and detectives -- Mothers and medicine -- Babe scientist : science and sex -- Femininity, feminism, and technology -- Conclusion : children's narratives.…”
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Decentering Rushdie : Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English / by Jani, Pranav, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The multiple cosmopolitanisms of the Indian novel in English -- Dawn of freedom : namak-halaal cosmopolitanisms in A time to be happy and The coffer dams -- Twilight years : women, nation, and interiority in The day in shadow and Clear light of day -- After midnight : class and nation in Midnight's children and Rich like us -- "Naaley. Tomorrow." Suffering and redemption in The god of small things.…”
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Passionate Amateurs : Theatre, Communism, and Love / by Ridout, Nicholas Peter

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Moral Enterprise : Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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The Promise of Justice : Essays on Brown v. Board of Education /

Table of Contents: “…/ Janine Hancock Jones and Charles R. Hancock -- Children of Brown / Mac A. Stewart.…”
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Certain Other Countries : Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales / by Conley, Carolyn, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Homicides: procedures, perceptions, and statistics -- National identity: foreigners and strangers -- Class, gender, and the fair fight -- Family and courtship -- Husbands and wives -- Children.…”
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Social Control in Europe : Volume 2, 1800-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Social Control in Belgium : The Catholic Factor / Jan Art -- 5. Priceless Children? Penitentiary Congresses Debating Childhood : A Quest for Social Order in Europe, 1846-1895 / Chris G.T.M. …”
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New Multicultural Identities in Europe : Religion and Ethnicity in Secular Societies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Chapter 1 The Manifestation of Identities in a Plural Post-Secular Europe; Part I : Post-Migrant Interactions/Identifications; Chapter 2 New and Old Identity Patterns of Religious Young Muslims in Germany; Chapter 3 Connecting Home and School: on the Second Generation Muslim Children's Agency in Belgian Schools; Chapter 4 Immigrant Identity, Social Adaptation and Post-Secular Society in Europe; Chapter 5 Manufacturing Self-Respect: Stigma, Pride and Cultural Juggling among Dalit Youth in Spain; Chapter 6 A Case of Euro-Muslimness in Poland? …”
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Inheritance in Contemporary America : The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…-- Contemporary studies of money -- Gifts as assistance -- Contextualizing gift giving -- Simply love -- Fellowship for funds -- Giving, not receiving -- The family life cycle and inheritance -- Money memories: narratives of the meaning of giving and receiving -- History lessons -- The silent generation -- Baby boomers -- Expanding obligations equal shrinking inheritances -- Drawing down assets -- Deciding too late or not at all -- Family disagreements -- Background on the interviews -- Early beginnings of family dynamics and money -- Money as a gift -- Money with strings attached -- How money matters -- The costs of wealth -- A guarded secret -- The value of gifts -- Contemporary values and beliefs regarding intergenerational transfers -- It isn't just money -- Family values and ideologies -- Leaving a legacy -- Transferring assets -- Inter vivos exchanges -- Children helping parents -- Choosing inheritance -- Challenges to family ideologies -- To give or not to give, that is the question -- Leaving a legacy: personal security, family obligations, and the state -- The effects of public policy on family gift giving -- How estate taxes vary -- Estate taxes and exemptions -- Estate planning for the family -- Private long-term care insurance -- Estate recovery and related long-term care financing issues -- Inter vivos transfers and inheritance -- The impact of gift giving on the family: what helps? …”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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The Papers of Thomas A. Edison : New Beginnings, January 1885–December 1887 / by Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931

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Citizenship Law in Africa: 3rd Edition / by Manby, Bronwyn

Table of Contents: “…Preface to the third edition -- Summary and recommendations -- International norms on nationality -- Nationality under colonial rule and the transition to independence -- The basis of nationality law today -- The right to a nationality in national law -- Nationality based on birth in the territory -- Nationality based on descent -- Adopted children -- Racial and ethnic discrimination -- Gender discrimination -- Dual nationality -- Naturalisation -- Nationality requirements for public office -- Rights for the African diaspora -- Loss and deprivation of nationality -- Renunciation and reacquisition -- Evidence and documentation -- State successions since independence -- Naturalisation as a "durable solution" for refugees -- Appendix : legal sources.…”
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Nursing with a Message : Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / by D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955-

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The Protestant Orphan Society and its social significance in Ireland 1828–1940 / by Cooper, June

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; The Protestant Orphan Society and its social significance in Ireland, 1828-1940; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Origins, 1828-30; 2 PO Societies and the Poor Law, 1830-50; 3 The 'family system', 1830-50; 4 Opposition and support, 1850-98; 5 Bereaved families and boarded-out children, 1850-98; 6 Child training or child labour? …”
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Learning Legacies : Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching / by Robbins, Sarah

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Remains of the Social : Desiring the post-apartheid /

Table of Contents: “…Traversing the social / Maurits van Bever Donker [and three others] -- The Mandela imaginary : reflections on post-reconciliation libidinal economy / Derek Hook -- The return of empathy : postapartheid fellow feeling / Ross Truscott -- The ethics of precarity : Judith Butler's reluctant universalism / Mari Ruti -- Hannah Arendt's work of mourning : the politics of loss, 'the rise of the social' and the ends of apartheid / Jaco Barnard-Naud{acute}e -- Souvenir / Annemarie Lawless -- Re-cover : Afrikaans rock, apartheid's children and the work of the cover / Aiden Erasmus -- The graves of Dimbaza : temporal remains / Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick -- The principle of insufficiency : ethics and community at the edge of the social / Maurits van Bever Donker -- The Trojan Horse and the 'becoming technical of the human' / Premesh Lalu.…”
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The Genocidal Gaze : From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich / by Baer, Elizabeth Roberts

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Lesbian Mothers : Accounts of Gender in American Culture / by Lewin, Ellen

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Voices in the Band : A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful / by Ball, Susan C., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…1992: Beginning -- 1992: So much to learn -- 1992: No easy answers and little to offer -- 1994: Too many drugs, no medication -- 1994: Being mindful of the subtext -- 1994: Weekend on call -- 1994: Christmas -- 1995: Another support group -- 1995: Mothers and children -- 1995: Decisions and revisions -- 1995: Colleagues and families -- 1995: So many stories and some new faces -- 1996: Some hope in the despair -- 1996: Hit early, hit hard -- 1997: Amazing changes -- 1999: Despite our best intentions -- 1999: Coping with a different paradigm -- 2000: Going home.…”
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