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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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Visual imagery greatly affects impressions of hotels and their geographical context (i.e. the properties themselves and their surroundings). This study compares how hotel zones are depicted in different destinations.
Zizhen Zheng +9 more
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Rancière, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the City-Scale
This chapter explores how Rancière’s aesthetic framework can help overcome an impasse around the scale debate within human geography—namely around scale’s relative position to ontology—and in turn provide insights for rethinking the city-scale in urban studies.
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ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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SENSORIAL STRATEGIES IN THE DESIGN OF PUBLIC [PDF]
The present paper wishes to establish new criteria regarding the aesthetic revitalisation of public means of transport in the big cities of Romania, using the principles of sensorial design. Unlike France, country in which the public transport systems in
PRALEA Jeni, TEODOR-STANCIU Silviu
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Note: Landmark Preservation: The Problem of the Tax-Exempt Owner [PDF]
This Note examines the effectiveness of the 1965 New York City Landmark Preservation Act with respect to its ability to confront the conflict between the desire to preserve the city\u27s history and the individual\u27s constitutional right to use and ...
Spearing, Mary
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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From Prohibition to Digitalisation: 100 Years of Cameras in the Courtroom
This article traces the shifting relationship between the courts, the public, and the media in England and Wales from the 1925 prohibition on courtroom photography to the contemporary regime of livestreamed and recorded proceedings. It situates the introduction of the ban on courtroom images within the first administrative turn of the judiciary, when ...
Ozan Kamiloglu, Kanika Sharma
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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