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Remembering Mary Jane

By: Tamara Jane Owens

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This is a simple story of the celebration of the life, the peaceful promise, and the lasting legacy of my dear grandmother Mary Jane, who taught without words that you can't put reins on a wandering spirit. "An ambitious first novel [as rich in retrospection as it is in introspection] that serves as both a how-to guide for all those struggling to come to terms with their own shortcomings, and an arduous journey down the most difficult path of all: the path to one's self. This heartfelt personal narrative is a catalyst for change and an instrument of peace; but above all, it reminds us that love is boundless, even in the face of death." -Jeremy Weimer, writer, poet, author of Plea "Remembering Mary Jane represents a wonderful tribute to God, families, and life. While the author tells the reader that she is not writing the great American novel, she takes the reader through a series of memories that will make one laugh and cry. These memories include life lessons for learning empathy in the purest sense. From Thanksmas to a funeral, the experiences of this family show love, care, compassion, and God's presence. A book you will be glad you read!" -Dr. Eugenia Badger, Indiana University, author of Metaphors, Beliefs, and Sayings About the Day of the Dead: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

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1456746359

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Vishnu's Snooze Alarm

By: C. Wayne Owens

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Vishnu's Snooze Alarm

By: C. Wayne Owens

When Vishnu wakes, the world ceases to be. Here is a set of off-the-board stories to sample while you wait for the alarm to go off again. There are possessed malls, vampire industrialists, urban golems, soul vampires and unlucky therapists within these pages. Enter with caution.

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1411667301

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9781411667303

Discover Your Spiritual Life

Illuminate Your Soul's Path

By: Elizabeth Owens

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Discover Your Spiritual Life

Illuminate Your Soul's Path

By: Elizabeth Owens

Provides detailed instructions on how to create affirmations and treasure maps to attract good things in your life."--Page 4 of cover.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738704237

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9780738704234

I Think I’ve Done Pretty Good!: Ruby Mae (Etherton) Owens Her Life, Her Family

By: James M. Owens

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I Think I’ve Done Pretty Good!: Ruby Mae (Etherton) Owens Her Life, Her Family

By: James M. Owens

In "I Think I've Done Pretty Good!" I trace ninety-seven years of my mother's remarkable life, 1915 to 2012. Ruby Mae (Etherton) Owens grew up on a modest, by today's standards poor, Southern Illinois farm. She really did walk a mile to school, a one-room school, occasionally riding a mule. My mother boarded out and worked her way through high school and college. She taught in rural one-room schools, married, transitioned from rural to urban life, worked in the Willow Run Bomber Plant during World War II, gave birth to three children, taught in and retired from suburban schools. Her life is clearly a story of success. She is certainly proud of the way she lived her life. In later life, she often declared, with great satisfaction, "I Think I've Done Pretty Good!" I am confident the readers of this sketch will have a better awareness of what life was like in Ruby's time and will agree she "did pretty good!

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1483407721

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Like Children

Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

By: Camille Owens

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Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America

By: Camille Owens

A history of childhood that revises the story of manhood, race, and human hierarchy in America"--

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NYU Press

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1479812919

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Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture

Hamlet, The Faerie Queene, and Arcadia

By: Judith Owens

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Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture

Hamlet, The Faerie Queene, and Arcadia

By: Judith Owens

This book is notable for bringing together humanist schooling and familial instruction under the banner of emotions and for studying seminal works of early modern literature within this new analytical context. It thus furnishes unique ways to think about two closely interrelated moral imperatives: shaping boys into civil subjects; and fashioning heroic agency and selfhood in literature. In tracing the emotional dynamics of the humanist classroom, this book shows just how thoroughly school could accommodate resistance to authority and foster unruly boys. In gauging the emotional pressures at work in filial relationships, it shows how profoundly sons could experience patriarchal authority as provisional, negotiable, or damaging. In turning to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Spenser’s Prince Arthur, and Sidney’s Arcadian heroes, Emotional Settings highlights the ways in which the respective emotional and moral imperatives of home and school could bring conflicting pressures to bear in the formation of heroic agency – and at what cost. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to scholars interested in early modern literature, pedagogy, histories of emotion, and histories of the family, as well as to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in these fields.

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Springer Nature

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3030431495

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9783030431495

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

By: Jessie Morgan-Owens

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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

By: Jessie Morgan-Owens

An “engrossing narrative history” (Joanna Scutts, The Lily) of the enslaved girl whose photograph transformed the abolition movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary’s skin was so light she “passed” as white—a fact abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner knew would be the key to his white audience’s sympathy. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history, “probing issues of colorism and racial politics” (New York Times Book Review) that still affect us profoundly today.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393609251

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9780393609257

Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 4

By: W R Owens,P N Furbank,Liz Bellamy,J A Downie

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Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 4

By: W R Owens,P N Furbank,Liz Bellamy,J A Downie

Includes ten volumes, which are suitable for Defoe scholars and academics of eighteenth-century history, religion and literature. This set offers readers texts and a wealth of editorial matter, including introductions, explanatory notes and a consolidated index to the ten volumes.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040247989

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9781040247983

Stages of Dismemberment

The Fragmented Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama

By: Margaret E. Owens

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Stages of Dismemberment

The Fragmented Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Drama

By: Margaret E. Owens

This study has essentially two focuses, two stories to tell. One story traces the secularization, theatricalization, and uncanny returns of suppressed religious culture in early modern drama. The other story concerns the tendency of the theater to expose contingencies and gaps in politico-judicial practices of spectacular violence." "The investigation covers a broad range of plays dating from the fifteenth century to the closing of the theatres in 1642; however, three chapters are devoted to extensive analysis of single plays: R.B.'s Apius and Virginia, Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI, and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus."--Jacket.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874138884

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9780874138887

Mr. Jefferson's Hammer

William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

By: Robert M. Owens

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Mr. Jefferson's Hammer

William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

By: Robert M. Owens

Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest. Owens traces Harrison’s political career as secretary of the Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and governor of Indiana Territory, as well as his military leadership and involvement with Indian relations. Thomas Jefferson, who was president during the first decade of the nineteenth century, found in Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration’s ruthless campaign to extinguish Indian land titles. More than a study of the man, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer is a cultural biography of his fellow settlers, telling how this first generation of post-Revolutionary Americans realized their vision of progress and expansionism. It surveys the military, political, and social world of the early Ohio Valley and shows that Harrison’s attitudes and behavior reflected his Virginia background and its eighteenth-century notions as much as his frontier milieu. To this day, we live with the echoes of Harrison’s proclamations, the boundaries set by his treaties, and the ramifications of his actions. Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer offers a much needed reappraisal of Harrison’s impact on the nation’s development and key lessons for understanding American sentiments in the early republic.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806182709

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9780806182704

Life Brings Hard Choices

Sometimes You Just Have to Run over the Skunk

By: Patricia Alexander Owens

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Life Brings Hard Choices

Sometimes You Just Have to Run over the Skunk

By: Patricia Alexander Owens

The author shares memories of experiences and CHOICES made throughout the eight decades of her life, some of which were inconsequential and others very life-changing. After dropping out of college at age seventeen to get married, she became focused on raising her three sons, trying to be a supportive wife, and at the same time continuing her college education. Her story tells of both the joy and difficulties of family life, her love and enjoyment of children and grandchildren, her many teaching experiences, her struggles through three divorces, how she put God on the “back burner” for many years, her search to find her way back to God, the turning points in her healing process, and how she ultimately found her long sought-after FORGIVENESS, PEACE and JOY.

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WestBow Press

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1664294260

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9781664294264

The Life of LTC Rolt

Where Engineering Met Literature

By: Victoria Owens

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The Life of LTC Rolt

Where Engineering Met Literature

By: Victoria Owens

In 1926, Tom Rolt who was then sixteen years old, abandoned his public school education. Having taken a job with a small firm of agricultural engineers, he realized that he had found his life’s calling. But the way ahead was neither smooth nor easy. Having secured a premium apprenticeship, the firm which took him on foundered and although he eventually qualified as a mechanical engineer, the 1930s depression made it almost impossible to find regular employment. Nothing daunted, with the encouragement of his mysterious companion ‘Cara’, he turned to writing. His literary career flourished alongside his association with the Vintage Sports Car Club, the Inland Waterways Association and the Talyllyn Railway. Between his Inland Waterways Association and Talyllyn phases, Angela, his first wife, left him to join Billy Smart’s Circus, and Sonia –an actress-turned-boatwoman – would become his second wife. Over the course of his life, he produced over thirty books, their subject matters ranging from canals and railways to engineering biography; company histories; a collection of accomplished ghost stories and a topographical survey of Worcestershire. He also wrote polemics about the plight of the craftsman in a world which relied increasingly upon mass production. In this book, the first full-length biography of Tom Rolt and a complement to his auto-biographical Landscape trilogy, Victoria Owens draws upon his surviving letters and unpublished manuscripts to tell the story of the engineer-turned-writer who made Britain’s industrial past the stuff of enduring literature.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399056654

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9781399056656

Agnes Owens

The Complete Short Stories

By: Agnes Owens

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Agnes Owens

The Complete Short Stories

By: Agnes Owens

This “terrific collection” presents the beloved Scottish author’s complete short stories, plus 14 new tales of bracing honesty and mordant wit (The Times, UK). A twice-married mother of seven, Agnes Owens had worked for years as a house cleaner, typist, and factory worker before being discovered in a small-town writing workshop. Her first story, “Arabella,” announced her great talent to her three instructors: Liz Lochhead, Alasdair Gray, and Jim Kelman. Many more stories followed, filling the now-classic volumes Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, and People Like That. This collection presents the complete contents of those books, plus fourteen previously unpublished stories, presented under the collective title The Dark Side. Owens' talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever, confirming her place as one of Scotland's finest contemporary writers. “Owens is a gentle writer with a slicing with . . . honest and unaffected.” —Sunday Times, UK

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Casemate Publishers

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0857901400

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9780857901408

Killer Catchers - Fourteen True Stories of How Britain's Wickedest Murderers Were Brought to Justice

By: Chris Ellis & Andy Owens

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Killer Catchers - Fourteen True Stories of How Britain's Wickedest Murderers Were Brought to Justice

By: Chris Ellis & Andy Owens

Murderers, Psychopaths, and Paedophiles - Their mention strikes dread and disgust into the heart of a nation, and the crimes committed by such individuals are of a nature more horrendous than any other. Their hideous acts of violence and abuse are unimaginably cruel, and the more disturbed and desperate we become for the killers to be brought to justice.Yet the extremely calculated nature of the crimes and their perpetrators means that evidence is often so thin on the ground that many cases end up being often left 'open' with little hope that more evidence will come to light, leaving families in utter devastation and the public in fear of its safety. However, thanks to rapidly developing advances in forensic techniques, especially in the fields of psychological, psychic and DNA profiling, more and more previously closed cases are being re-examined and solved many years after the crimes were committed."Killer Catchers" is the incredible collection of such astonishing true stories. The murders in this book will chill you to the bone, but the techniques used to solve them will astound and reassure you in equal measure. The stories in this book are fascinating and varied but they all have one thing in common: each murderer thought they would get away with their horrific crime, and almost nearly did...But now there is no such thing as the perfect murder.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1784185590

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9781784185596

Imagining England's Past

Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession

By: Susan Owens

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Imagining England's Past

Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession

By: Susan Owens

England has long built its sense of self on visions of its past. What does it mean for medieval writers to summon King Arthur from the post-Roman fog; for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the medieval workshop and Julia Margaret Cameron to portray the Arthurian court with her Victorian camera; or for Yinka Shonibare in the final years of the twentieth century to visualize a Black Victorian dandy? By exploring the imaginations of successive generations, this book reveals how diverse notions of the past have inspired literature, art, music, architecture and fashion. It shines a light on subjects from myths to mock-Tudor houses, Stonehenge to steampunk, and asks how and why the past continues so powerfully to shape the present. Not a history of England, but a history of those who have written, painted and dreamed it into being, Imagining England's Past offers a lively, erudite account of the making and manipulation of the days of old.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500778299

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9780500778296

Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps

By: Burgess Owens

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Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps

By: Burgess Owens

The black middle class—saviors of the American way. Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps documents the role of the 21 white, self-avowed socialist, atheist and Marxist founders of the NAACP and their impact on the Black community’s present status at the top of our nations misery index. It highlights the decades of anti-Black legislation supported by liberal black leaders who prioritized class over race in their zeal for the promises of socialism. Their anti-Black legislation, dating back with the 1932 Davis-Bacon Act, continues today to suppress inter-community Black capitalism, federal construction related Black employment, work and job experience for Black teenagers, quality education access for urban black children, and the role of black men as leaders within the family unit. Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps highlights the strategy, used in 1910, to inject the atheist ideology of socialism into a once enterprising, self-sufficient, competitive and proud Christian black community. A portion of that community, the conservative Black middle class, is positioned to pull our nation back from this abyss. Americans can ensure that the century-long sacrifice of lost hopes, dreams and lives made by the proud, courageous, patriotic, capitalist, Christian based, self-sufficient, education-seeking Black community of the early 1900s was not in vain—but only if we choose to learn lessons from those past Black generations.

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Post Hill Press

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1682612066

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9781682612064

Bound by Convention

Obligation and Social Rules

By: David Owens,Professor of Philosophy David Owens

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Bound by Convention

Obligation and Social Rules

By: David Owens,Professor of Philosophy David Owens

How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether those social arrangements (e.g. our family structures) reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If they do, compliance will serve our interests because these rules are not just conventions. Another approach is to ask whether following a convention has desirable consequences. For example, the rule which makes the dollar bill legal tender is a convention and the great usefulness of having a medium of exchange ensures that we should follow that convention by accepting paper money in return for things of real value. This work argues that being bound by a convention can also be valuable for its own sake. People need meaning in their lives and conventions infuse acts and attitudes with normative significance, rendering them right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate, required or forbidden. Such rules bind us not just in virtue of their usefulness but also because their absence would impoverish our social world. Appreciating this point is essential to a proper understanding of our cultures of neighbourliness and hospitality, family structures, systems of property rights, conventions around speech, the norms governing how we deport ourselves in public, and even the rules of a game.

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Oxford University Press

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0192896121

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9780192896124

Pooh's Bedtime Book

By: Alan Alexander Milne,Gail Owens

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Pooh's Bedtime Book

By: Alan Alexander Milne,Gail Owens

Whether he's using a balloon to get honey from some trees, discovering the North Pole, or trying to find breakfast for Tigger, Winnie-the-Pooh always succeeds in endearing himself to his fans. This collection of three stories and five poems from the original Pooh books has been specially selected for bedtime reading. Full color.

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Putnam Juvenile

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0140387935

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9780140387933

Consent in the Presence of Force

Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

By: Emily A. Owens

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Consent in the Presence of Force

Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

By: Emily A. Owens

In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated—even normalized—a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access. Owens centers the survival strategies and intellectual labor of Black women enslaved in New Orleans to unravel the culture of violence they endured, in which slaveholders obscured "the presence of force" with arrangements that included gifts and money. Owens's storytelling highlights that the classic formulation of rape law that requires "the presence of force" and "the absence of consent" to denote a crime was in fact a key legal fixture that packaged predation as pleasure and produced, rather than prevented, violence against Black women. Owens dramatically reorients our understanding of enslaved women's lives as well as of the nature of violence in the entire venture of racial slavery in the U.S. South. Unsettling the idea that consent is necessarily incompatible with structural and interpersonal violence, this history shows that when sex is understood as a transaction, women are imagined as responsible for their own violation.

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UNC Press Books

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1469670526

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9781469670522

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