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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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The Kuznets Curve of Education: A Global Perspective on Education Inequalities [PDF]
This paper describes global trends in average educational attainment and in education inequality since 1870, improving the database released by Morrisson-Murtin (2009).
Christian Morrisson, Fabrice Murtin
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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
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A multiscale framework for the origin and variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone [PDF]
, 2012 Ambrizzi +41 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth‐century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including regarding Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’. The community meetings were a male sphere in which men discussed women's role within Jewish tradition. This
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
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The Century of Education [PDF]
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years
Christian Morrisson, Fabrice Murtin
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XIII.—Report upon the Tunicata dredged during the Cruises of H.M.SS. “Porcupine” and “Lightning,” in the Summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870. [PDF]
, 1884 W. A. Herdman
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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