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The impact of idealized images of female beauty on women's self-concept: Who does it affect and when?	Cross-cultural palimpsest of Mulan: Iconography of the woman warrior from premodern China to Asian America

Lofty ideals and ground realities: Feminism, activism, and NGOs in Pakistan	The role of professional nursing in the origin of the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1996 from a feminist perspective, 1981--1996

Unexpected transitions; moving beyond cultural barriers: Successful strategies of female technology education teachers	Perspectives on learning in the Women's Economic and Empowerment Literacy program in Nepal

Re-viewing the Holocaust through a new lens: Memory, language, and identity in the autobiographical texts of Cordelia Edvardson, Ruth Kluger, and Elizabeth Trahan	New history, new language: Biblical intertextuality in the poetry of Rahel Bluvshtain

Sisters in the struggle: Individual and institutional factors affecting the persistence of Black, female, doctoral students at U.S. predominantly White institutions	Tibetan women and higher educational experience: An exploratory study

Participatory action research among Thai women and girls involved in prostitution	Good women becoming "queens": Young mothers on welfare as cultural readers

Women's ways of drinking: College women, high-risk alcohol use, and related consequences	Pathways to success in science: A phenomenological study, examining the life experiences of African-American women in higher education

Understanding voice in the disciplines: The struggles of Latina non-traditional students and their instructors	"Driven" women: Gendered moral economies of women's migrant labor in postsocialist Europe's peripheries

Migrant women and economic justice: A class analysis of Anatolian-German women in homemaking and cleaning services	Un-domesticated mothers: Private and public female subjectivities in the journalism of Alfonsina Storni and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Rethinking women, development and empowerment: Toward transnational feminist literacy practices	Reaching the poorest through microfinance: Learning from saving for change program in Mali

Before the second wave: College women, cultural literacy, sexuality and identity, 1940--1965	The cartography of borders in Ana Teresa Torres's "Dona Ines Vs. Oblivion"

Maternal drag: Identity, motherhood, and performativity in the works of Julia Franck	Women's contribution to gross national happiness: A critical analysis of the role of nuns and nunneries in education and sustainable development in Bhutan

The artistry and activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A twentieth century African American torchbearer	"Obscene fantasies": Elfriede Jelinek's generic perversions

Literacy and religious agency: An ethnographic study of an online LDS women's group	Breastfeeding and the individual: The impact of everyday stressful experience and hormonal change on breastfeeding duration among women in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Raiding the inarticulate: Postmodernisms, feminist theory and black female creativity	From spiritual guides to eager consumers: American girls' series fiction, 1865--1930

'Oh! The one who covers her face / surely is not worth much': Identity and social criticism in transatlantic Hispanic culture (1520--1860)	Gossip talk and online community: Celebrity gossip blogs and their audiences

"The lover's instructor": Courtship advice in Anglo-America, 1640-1830	"It's nothing personal": Competing discourses for girls and women in mathematics

Politics by other means: Rhizomes of power in Argentina's social movements	Financial literacy and women: A mixed method study of challenges and needs

Writing practices: Spatiality and identity in women's colonial letters (Rio de la Plata during the 16th and 17th centuries)	A process of becoming: U.S. born African American and Black women in a process of liberation from internalized racism

Utopian gender: Counter discourses in a feminist community	The interaction between endogenous cortisol and salivary alpha-amylase predicts implicit cognitive bias in young women

Woodrow Wilson's conversion experience: The president and the federal woman suffrage amendment	They chose to major in engineering: A study of why women enter and persist in undergraduate engineering programs

A 'living art': Working-class, transcultural, and feminist aesthetics in the United States, Mexico, and Algeria, 1930s	Newlywed couples' marital satisfaction and patterns of cortisol reactivity and recovery as a response to differential marital power

Unpacking voice and silence: A phenomenological study of Black women and Latinas in college classrooms