Black Madonna: A Womanist Look at Mary of Nazareth
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The figure of the Virgin Mary comes loaded with baggage and preconceptions. She is usually depicted...
Religion Gender studies
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science
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Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the...
The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
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Known as the Audubon of Botany, Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a...
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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Kirsteen is the tale of a young woman from an old but impoverished Argyllshire family who escapes...
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic...
Angels on Horseback: And Elsewhere
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Thelwell really understood the English countryside, its animals and people, and appraised with...
Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury: Postmortem CT Scanning
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Practitioners of forensic medicine have various tools at their disposal to determine cause of death,...
Travels in West Africa: the Classic Account of One Woman's Epic and Eccentric Journey in the 1890s
Mary H. Kingsley and Lynnette Turner
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A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the...
Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England
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The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties. It is, however, a...
Moments of Being
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Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished...