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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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NARRATIVES OF ABSURDITY IN ALBERT CAMUS:IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN EXPERIENCE [PDF]
This paper aims at a logical analysis of absurdity in the narratives of Albert Camus and its implications for human experiences. In order to achieve the desired aim, this paper employs analytic method of research to examine the concept of absurdity
Anacletus, I. Ogbunkwu, Macaulay, A.Kanu
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Fixing the Constitutional Absurdity of the Apportionment of Direct Tax [PDF]
, 2004 Johnson, Calvin H.. (2004). Fixing the Constitutional Absurdity of the Apportionment of Direct Tax.
Johnson, Calvin H.
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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ABSURDITY IN WINSTON GROOM’S FOREST GUMP (ABSURDITAS DALAM NOVEL “FOREST GUMP” KARYA WINSTON GROOM)
, 2014 This journal discusses about the absurdity portrayed in Forest Gump. In Forest's perception, life is only a repetition so that there will be no purpose and when people are trapped in the prosaic routine, their life will be meaningless.
Sukmila Sari., Shinta
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Erich Fromm\u27 humanistic ethics as a solution to the existential problems implied by absurdity
, 2006 Absurdity has often referred to as a problem of human existence. It refers to the meaninglessness of our existence. Yes, this is true - absurdity is indeed the meaningless, purposelessness, lack of consistency and structure of human life and action.
De Guzman, Marc Kristofffer A.
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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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