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'As a man I exist; as a woman I live': Heterosexual transvestism and the contours of gender and sexuality in postwar America	'Hands that never rest': Ainu women, cultural revival, and indigenous politics in Japan

'Home of all nations': Race, place, and domesticity in American literature, 1877--1919	'Hookups' and 'friends with benefits': Nonrelational sexual encounters as contexts of women's normative sexual development

A study of attrition among female tenure-track faculty	A woman's place: Gender, politics, and the state in Meiji Japan

Aesthetic womanist pedagogy: A case study of educative emotional everyday Latina communicative practices	African American women's personal influencing factors associated with Pap smear testing and cervical cancer

Analysis of the contribution of the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women to women's rights: Statistical findings and country cases (New Zealand, Tanzania, Uganda)	Atlantic crossings: Race, gender, and the construction of families in eighteenth-century La Rochelle

Balancing acts: Possible selves and the transition from welfare to work	Being Asians, good "moms," and great workers: Investigating the psychological contours of Asian Indian immigrant women's "model minority" experience

Black and white racial and ethnic identities in the Midwest	Black female faculty and professional socialization: Constraints, enablements and enactments

Breast cancer as a life process: Psychosocial experiences of Latina and White (non-Latina) long-term breast cancer survivors	Claiming an education: The transatlantic performance and circulation of intellectual identities in college women's writing, 1870--1900

Cognitive maps of women with coronary heart disease: Describing the content	Continuity and change in British feminism, c. 1940--1960

Creating a common table: Dona Petrona, cooking, and consumption in Argentina, 1928--1983	Cruising and queer counterpublics: Theories and fictions

Detection of exercise energy expenditure	Doing gender and self-esteem in intimate relationships

Embodied marginalization: Exploring the social determinants of cervical cancer disparities	Embodying citizenship in Brazilian women's film, video, and literature, 1971 to 1988

Essays in labor and family economics	Experiences of LBGQ mothers: Identity, social support and maternal satisfaction

Fashionable people, fashionable society: Fashion, gender, and print culture in England 1821--1861	Fashioning the nation: Hairdressing, professionalism and the performance of gender in Ghana, 1900--2006

Female sexuality after women's 'liberation': Negotiating repression and performance norms	From delinquent daughters to independent mothers: Gendered expectations in juvenile justice and alternative programs for girls

Gender equality and democracy: A comparative perspective	Gender, heterosexuality, sexual violence and identity among heavy-drinking white and Asian American college students

Gender, sexuality, and belonging: Female homosexuality in Germany, 1890--1933	Genres of evidence: Reading facts in England from archives, historiography and literature, 1770--1830

Gertrude and her boys: Collaborative friendship, masculine styles, and queer affairs in the modern world (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Virgil Thomson, Carl Van Vechten)	Grassroots feminism: Direct action organizing and coalition building in New York City, 1955--1995

Illness representations in Thai women diagnosed with hypertension and relationships to medication-taking behavior	Imperial travelers: The formation of West African urban culture, identity, and citizenship in London and Accra, 1925--1935

In the land of enchantment: Multiethnic modernism and the American Southwest	Intersections of race and gender in women's experiences of harassment

Liberalism and the origins of the social: Women, poverty, and the political meanings of philanthropy in nineteenth-century Spain (Madrid 1834--1843)	Literary travel, the woman traveler, and twentieth century constructions of Mexican tourist spaces

Masculinity, femininity, appearance ideals, and the Black body: Developing a positive raced and gendered bodily sense of self	Mormons, polygamy, and the American body politic: Contesting citizenship, 1852--1890

Narratives of transgression: Deviance and defiance in late twentieth century Latina literature	Navy wives/native lives: The cultural and historical relations between American naval wives and Chamorro women in Guam, 1898--1945

Overweight Black, White, and Hispanic girls: The relationships of SES, religion, and self-esteem	Persistent pathologies: The odd coupling of alcoholism and homosexuality in the discourses of twentieth century science

Physical inactivity among midlife women: Understanding norms, goals, and behavior	Productive (cyber) public space: Slash fan fiction's multiple imaginary

Protesting little sister: Black women's sexual politics, 1940--1953 (Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Zora Neale Hurston, Curtis Lucas, Gwendolyn Brooks)	Race, sex, and citizenship: Constructions of citizenship in legal investigations of sexualized violence against African-American women

Raising the nation: Medicine, morality, and vospitanie in eighteenth-century Russia	Reading Latinas: A cultural analysis of beauty, gender and empowering models for and by Latinas (Cristina Garcia, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Josefina Lopez, Patricia Cardoso)

Reclaiming a spoiled maternal identity: Young mothers' experiences and rejection of stigma	Representin' in cyberspace: Sexuality, hip hop, and self-definition in home pages constructed by Black adolescent girls in the HIV/AIDS era

Sounding the nation: The musical imagination of Bollywood cinema (India)	Strategic negotiations: West Indian women, diasporic identity and television

The autonomy-fostering state: Citizenship and social service delivery	The baby in the body: Pregnancy practices as kin and person making experience in the contemporary United States

The figure of woman and the distractions of desire: Psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory and the translation of difference	The girls from the prayer room: The women's Islamist movement at Yarmouk University, Jordan

The impact of gynecological morbidity on women's quality of life in northern Mexico	Thinking "straight": Heteronormativity and associated outcomes across sexual orientation

Thyroid hormone status in women at mid-life: Its roles in insulin resistance, obesity and inflammation	Timing scaffolding during Web design instruction to positively affect women's expectations for success and task values

Trans(formative) relationships: What we learn about identities, bodies, work and families from women partners of trans men	Transitioning: The history of childbirth in Puerto Rico, 1948--1990s

Translating Byzantium: Cross-cultural marriage and gender in medieval French romance	Understanding the psychology of unsustainability: Linking materialism, authoritarianism, attitudes toward gender and the environment, and behavior

What is this gangstressism in popular culture? Reading rap music as a legitimate hustle and analyzing the role of agency in intrafemale aggression	Work-family conflict, positive spillover, and emotions among Asian American working mothers