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Stedman's Medical Dictionary, for example, defines pregnancy as "[t] he state of a female after conception and until the termination of the gestation."
Cristina Page: HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion 2009
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EE: Mysteryville is abuzz about that dinner you had last week in D.C. with a guy that could be Stedman's twin.
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EE: Mysteryville is abuzz about that dinner you had last week in D.C. with a guy that could be Stedman's twin.
July 2006 2006
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EE: Mysteryville is abuzz about that dinner you had last week in D.C. with a guy that could be Stedman's twin.
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EE: Mysteryville is abuzz about that dinner you had last week in D.C. with a guy that could be Stedman's twin.
December 2006 2006
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Just ahead, Stedman's thoughts on the TV reality show that pits people against each other based on race.
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While such pastoral evocations tend to confirm the popular image of the New World as an Edenic garden, thus enticing European readers with the promise of unlimited prosperity in an idyllic New World landscape, they are ultimately qualified by Stedman's colonialist tendency to celebrate only geographical areas considered instrumentally valuable.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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Finally, it is important to note the generic influences on Stedman's sexual ethnography, for in its implicit tendency to locate corruption in the colonial metropolis and "purity" or freedom in the green world of Surinam, Stedman's discussion partakes of the apparent dichotomy of the pastoral idyll, which, by distinguishing country from city (and, by extension, nature from culture), tends often to efface the ideological practices inevitably constituting our views of the "natural" world.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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Moreover, the text's intermixing of naturalist and ethnographic subject matterhighlighted most explicitly in Stedman's figurative description of the celebrated slave-girl Joanna as a "forsaken plant" (1796; 1.90) draws an implicit parallel between the European objectification of plants and animals, on the one hand, and the objectification of human beings, on the other, each of which are valuable to the empire primarily in an instrumental capacity.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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In places yet unvisited by the voyager highlights the issue of European imperialist expansion, finding, once again, illuminating parallels in Stedman's Narrative.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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