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Table of Contents “...Creolization in the Old Regime -- Border of violence, border of desire : the French and the island Caribs -- Domestication and the white noble savage -- Creolization and the spirit world : demons, violence, and the body -- The libertine colony : desire, miscegenation, and the law -- Race, reproduction, and family romance in Saint-Domingue....”

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Table of Contents “...Baby Boom and Birth Control: The Reproductive Consensus -- 7. The Commodity Gap: Consumerism and the Modern Home -- 8. ...”

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Table of Contents “...Field -- Reconstruction or reproduction? Mothers and the great Soviet family in cinema after Stalin / John Haynes -- Monitored selves : Soviet women's autobiographical texts in the Khrushchev era / Marianne Liljeström -- Women in the home / Susan E. ...”
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Table of Contents “...Sanborn -- Seeing like a Soviet state : settlement of nomadic Kazakhs, 1928-34 / Matthew Payne -- Counter-narratives of Soviet life : Kulak special settlers in the first person / Lynne Viola -- Gender, marriage, and reproduction in the postwar Soviet Union / Mie Nakachi -- Collective action in Soviet society : the case of war veterans / Mark Edele -- "Shostakovich, et al." and the Iron Curtain : intellectual property and the development of a Soviet strategy of cultural confrontation, 1948-1949 / Kiril Tomoff -- A torture memo : reading violence in the Gulag / Golfo Alexopoulos -- Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman / Jim Andrews -- Reminiscences: Peter Nicholls; David Fitzpatrick; Barbara Gillam; Jerry Hough; Efim Iosifovich Pivovar; Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozlov; Leora Auslander; Alison Edwards; Katerina Clark; Kiril Tomoff....”
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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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