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The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc: A Novel
Loraine DespresIt's a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering -- half seriously -- if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola.
Neutralizing typical America
Raymond Jung Lee HsuMy reading of Hurston is closer to that of Robin LeBlanc. whose study of Japanese housewives emphasizes their participation in alternative publics. Robin LeBlanc, Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. Berkeley ...
Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife
Robin M. LeBlancIn this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society.
Gender, partisanship, and political alienation in Japan and ...
Sherry L. MartinNowhere is this better illustrated than in Robin LeBlanc's observation that Japanese women bicycle into elite politics while their male counterparts ride taxis (1999). Robin LeBlanc's study of women and citizen politics is a thick description of an ...
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in ...
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc... Berk; Melanie Bishop; Kenneth Bobroff; LindaBowers; Colleen Craite; Lori DiGiacomo; BethDiNardo; Susan Eaton;Joanne Fedler; Gerald Freund; Amy, John,and Jillian Giangrande; Gus Giangrande; Lucy Grealy; Leston Havens; Lillian Hsu-Flanders; Sonny Kleinfield; Judith Lahti; Daniel LeBlanc; Gerard LeBlanc; Barbara Lewis; Linda Martin; Guy Mastellone;Jerica Mazzaferro;Tal McThenia; Victoria Shaw; Ilena Silverman; Dorothy Thomas; SusanTodd; andKimberly West- Faulcon.
Bayou Boy
George Harmon SmithJean LeBlanc had lived in the Louisiana swamp country all his fourteen years.
Later Gator:
Jana DeLeonA poacher is at work in Sinful, Louisiana, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc is hot on the trail of the outlaw, trying to apprehend him before the state gets wind of the crime and sends a game warden to take over his investigation.
The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese ...
Robin M. LeBlanc"A beautifully written book, The Art of the Gut reads as easily as a fast-paced novel.
Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics: Negotiating ...
J. LeBlancHomi K. Bhabha, from his postcolonial perspective takesseriously emergentnonWestern responses to these apparently hegemonic conceptions. His work marks, he argues, “a shift of attention from the political as pedagogical, ideological ...
United States of America Congressional Record
PreviewC. LAUS RICHARD I. LAWLOR STEVEN C. LAWRENCE CHRISTOPHER. M. LEBLANC ... BENJAMIN P. MALAY SCOTT P. MALONEY LEBO R. MANCUSO ANDREW S. MARKS ROBIN N. MARLING KEVIN M. MARSH IRA. E. MARSHALL ...
Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace
Ellen MayockEdurne Portela enriched the text with her keen reading of it and consistent support, while Robin LeBlanc has generously allowed me to use her poem, “ What He Told Me When I Complained About the Boys' Club,” at the beginning of Gender ...
Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge
Preview... large and overwhehningly female (largely housewives) membership, both markets organic food on a nationwide basis and has a political wing (Netto) which operates mainly at the town and prefectural level. As Robin LeBlanc (1999 ) argues ...
Journalism Unbound: New Approaches to Writing and Reporting
Mitchell StephensAlthough the focus is on what journalism might be, the book employs as examples the best of what journalism has been--from Joan Didion to Nate Silver, Edward R. Murrow to Samantha Power, and James Baldwin to Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional ...
Suzanne Hall VogelSumiko Iwao argues that women have generally viewed politics as something unrelated to their lives and values, so they “have exercised power mainly in their personal or local spheres.”18 Robin LeBlanc suggests that women are involved in ...
The Ontario Craft Beer Guide: Second Edition
Robin LeBlancWhile the end of the last decade saw them chasing big beer trends like lime flavouring and low carbohydrates, the change in direction under former CEO Robert Sartor has been profound. In Alberta, brewer Paul Gautreau has released ...
The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics ...
Amy BorovoyMore recently, in a study of Japanese political women, Robin LeBlanc has suggested that it is through their daily lives as housewives that many women become involved in the world of politics, including neighborhood improvement campaigns, ...
Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from ...
Richard LouvFor the second edition of this book, I am indebted to Cheryl Charles and Alicia Senauer for research updates. And I am grateful to Martin LeBlanc, Amy Pertschuk, Marti Erickson, John Parr, Stephen Kellert, Yusuf Burgess, Chris Krueger, Mike ...
A Thorn in the Flesh: How Gay Sexuality is Changing the ...
Caroline J. Addington Hall11: Douglas LeBlanc, “Out ofAfrica,” Christianity Today, July 15, 2005: 12: Rupert Shortt, Rowan 's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008), 312: 13: Stephen Bates, “Schism Postponed,” ...
Congressional Serial Set
More editionsLEARY, ALBERT DANIEL III. LEARY. BARBARA........ LEARY, SHARON DIANA LEASOR, JENI.................. LEATHERMAN, CAROL ANN LEAVITT, WENDY S... LEBER, JENNIFER.... LEBLANC, MILDRED. LECHNER, WENDY S. LEDERER, ...
Va Lettre Va: The French Verse Epistle (1400-1550)
Yvonne LeBlancFor a discussion of this edition of Lemaire's epistles, see Kathleen Miriam Munn, A Contribution to the Study of Jean Lemaire de Belges: A Critical Study of Bio- Bibliographical Data, including a Transcript of Various Unpublished Works (New ...
Nos Aucoin de Chéticamp:
Charles D. Roach... dans lequel seraient présentés les fruits de l'œuvre du Père Aucoin, appuyés des recherches de l'équipe qui lui a succédé au centre de généalogie, soit Kirne Jean Doris LeBlanc, M. Edmond J. Burns et l 'auteur du présent volume.
Canadian Working-class History: Selected Readings
PreviewFather Anselme Chiasson, Chéticamp: History and Acadian Traditions, trans. by Jean Doris LeBlanc (St. John's 1986), 66–7. Certainly too resident fish merchants like Laurence Kavanaugh made use of local wage labour. John MacDougall ...
Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970
Alan MacEachernCheticamp: History and Acadian Tradition. Trans. Jean Doris LeBlanc. St John's: Breakwater Press 1986 Colpitts, Nancy. ”Alma, New Brunswick and the Twentieth Century Crisis of Readjustment: Sawmilling Community to National Park.
Nouvelles de l'Estampe
More editions... Thomas Sécheret, Jean-Baptiste (Association des Amis de la BnF) Shaler, Lynn (Atelier Georges Leblanc) Shives, Arnold Silveri, Massimo (Atelier Del Arco) Soisson, Jacques Solanilla, Yves (Atelier IDL) Solberg, Brigitte (APOGEE) Soucy, ...
Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry
PreviewT.J. Carty. C.G. Goodyer. and A.C. LeBlanc, J.Neurochem.. 83, 1349 (2002). 49. J.M. Chen, G. Jin, A. Sung, and J.l. Levin, Bioorg, Med .Chem.Lett., 12. 1195 ( 2002). 50. J.l. Levin, J.M. Chen, M.T. Du, F.C. Nelson, LM. Killar, S. Skala, A. Sung, ...
Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and ...
Rachel Carroll... Linda, 75 Kitzinger, Celia, 5 Kitzinger, Jenny, 137 Kutulus, Judy, 103 LeBlanc, John, 100 Lesbian continuum (Adrienne Rich), 3 Lesbian feminism, 2—5, 8, 10, 14—15 Lesbian identity in Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, 12, 120-3 in Zoe Heller, ...
Une présence qui s'affirme: la communauté acadienne et ...
Greg AllainAnnette Pelletier, présidente Jean-Marc Francoeur Paul LeBlanc Bruno Lalonde Patrick Chouinard Claude Gauvin Louise Paulin Richard Ouellette Céline Doucet -Rousselle Louise Bourgeois Alfred Losier 1993-1994 Louise Paulin, ...
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