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Aspects of Radical Gay Liberation Theory in West Germany's Tuntenstreit, 1973–1975
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines in depth the theoretical positions of the Tuntenstreit – a major theoretical dispute within the radical West German gay liberation movement in the 1970s. By working through archival material as well as the dispute's fundamental texts, it renders visible its often‐neglected underlying theoretical motifs and, consequently ...
Hauke Branding
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Beyond electoralism: reflections on anarchy, populism, and the crisis of electoral politics [PDF]
, 2017 This paper is comprised of a series of short, conversational or polemical interventions reflecting on the political ‘moment’ that has emerged in the wake of the rise of right-populist politics, particularly in the Global North.
Araujo, E. +7 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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Hybridisierung und Erotisierung des Mythos
Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2019 In this essay, Thomas Mann’s understanding of myth, which is fundamental to his 4-part novel Joseph and His Brothers (1933-1943), is seen as an alternative concept to the fascist myth of unity in terms of ‘people’ (Volk) and ‘race’. This fascist myth was
Thomas Pekar
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Passeurs: Narratives of Border Crossing in the Western Alps [PDF]
, 2019 This article focuses on representations of passeurs: migrant smugglers across the French-Italian and Swiss-Italian borders. I analyze a heterogeneous corpus of novels, films, and essays published between 1990-2017 that refer to different waves of ...
Di Blasio, Federica
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Democratic Alarmism: Coherent Notion or Contradiction in Terms?
Constellations, EarlyView.
James S. Pearson
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Beyond the Wall: Typography from the German Democratic Republic [PDF]
, 2004 1989: The German Democratic Republic (GDR) still existed and the Berlin Wall was still standing. Communism was alive in Europe. Hard to believe now, yet only fifteen years ago, a reality.
Carruthers, Grant, Yee, Joyce
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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