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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Segregation: An Introduction

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the ...
Lisa Hellman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 Sufficient to Promote the Uptake of Paperless Trading Systems?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In September 2023, the Electronic Trade Documents Act (ETDA) came into force in the UK. It aims to facilitate paperless trade by allowing certain trade documents in electronic form to have the same legal functionality as their paper counterparts. The question this article poses is whether the ETDA, and similar legislative initiatives in other countries,
Ilias Ioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
Paul Stock
wiley   +1 more source

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological aspects of metazoan endoparasites of Metynnis lippincottianus (Cope, 1870) (Characidae) from Upper Paraná River floodplain, Brazil [PDF]

open access: diamond, 2009
Leticia Moreira   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

State of the Field: The History of Masculinities

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
wiley   +1 more source

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