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Gender, Marriage and the Elites in India
ABSTRACT Scholarship on Indian marriages is vast and interesting, with insights into structural practices and transformations, everyday realities, and maintenance of boundaries and hierarchies of groups. To understand these aspects, studies have focussed on specific caste groups, religious and regional communities, bourgeoning urban areas and emerging ...
Parul Bhandari
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Ideal yet Actual: Actresses Posing as Antique Heroines in Late-Victorian “Classical” Portraits
The late-Victorian neoclassical artists George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton and Edward Poynter posed three famous actresses, Ellen Terry, Dorothy Dene and Lillie Langtry, in paintings whose subjects were drawn from Antiquity.
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who\u27s the Thinnest of Them All? [PDF]
Societal standards of feminine beauty are presented in all forms of popular culture, thus bombarding women with images that portray what our society considers to be the “ideal body type.” These images, as seen on the cover of magazines, in popular films ...
O\u27Brien, Ann Marie
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Underserved Latinas' Perceptions and Implications Around Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
ABSTRACT Introduction Breast cancer remains a leading cause of death among Latinas. Although breast cancer risk assessment models exist and show promise in reducing mortality, few studies have elicited women's interest in and perceptions around breast cancer risk assessment, particularly among underserved populations, like Latinas, who are susceptible ...
Jane Q. Yap +5 more
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Born into an acting family, she began her career in companies in Tuscany. She gained her first leading actress role in 1811 in the troupe run by her mother, Elisabetta, and by Antonio Belloni, Carlo Calamari and Ferdinando Meraviglia.
Francesca Simoncini, Antonio Tacchi
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Playhouse Creatures Playbill [PDF]
Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film Angell Blackfriars Theatre Playhouse Creatures January 22-24 and 28-31 A play by April De Angelis Directed by John Garrity Scenic Design: Trevor Elliott Lighting Design: Jen Rock Vocal and Dialect ...
Providence College
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When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective
Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
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Le prime attrici della compagnia Reale Sarda nel database AMAtI
The section is dedicated to the profiles of three important actresses active in the first half of the 19th century: Carlotta Marchionni (1796-1861), Amalia Bettini (1809-1894), Antonietta Robotti (1817-1864).
Francesca Simoncini
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Fractional Dynamics of Network Growth Constrained by aging Node Interactions
In many social complex systems, in which agents are linked by non-linear interactions, the history of events strongly influences the whole network dynamics. However, a class of "commonly accepted beliefs" seems rarely studied.
Ausloos, Marcel +5 more
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Political Economy of Thailand’s Third Gender [PDF]
Not man, not woman, but kathoey. This study focuses on the political economy surrounding the construction of the third gender in Thailand and opportunities available to non-binary gender identities.
Aguirre, David
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