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Table of Contents “...Introduction: culture, gender, and foreign policy reason -- The foreign policy "establishment" -- The reproduction of imperial manhood -- Heroism, bodies, and the construction of elite masculinity -- "Lavender lads" and the foreign policy establishment -- The sexual inquisition and the imperial brotherhood -- Lavender-baiting and the persistence of the sexual inquisition -- John F. ...”

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Table of Contents “...Cover; Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction: the power of technology; Section I Material foundations of the moral order; 1 Machines for living: domestic architecture and the engineering of the social order in late imperial China; 2 Instructive and nourishing landscapes: natural resources, people and the state in late imperial China; Section II Gynotechnics: crafting womanly virtues; 3 Women's work and women's place: textiles and gender; 4 Structures of feeling: decorum, desire and a place of one's own5 Tales of fertility: reproductive narratives in late imperial medical cases; Section III Androtechnics: the writing-brush, the plough and the nature of technical knowledge; 6 Science, technique, technology: passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture; 7 A gentlemanly occupation: the domestication of farming knowledge; 8 Agricultural illustrations: blueprint or icon?...”
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Table of Contents “..."I have hired you with my son's mandrakes" : women's reproductive magic in ancient Israel /...”