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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Writing Irish Art History [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2011
This is a short report on two events which addressed the critical historiography of Irish art, architecture and material culture, both titled ‘Writing Irish Art History’.
Niamh NicGhabhann
doaj  

Globalizing Hayden White [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This conversation originated in a plenary session organized by Ewa Domańska and María Inés La Greca under the same title of ‘Globalizing Hayden White’ at the III International Network for Theory of History Conference ‘Place and Displacement: The Spacing ...
Chen, Xin   +5 more
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Structuralist Legal Histories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This is a contribution to a symposium titled Theorizing Contemporary Legal Thought.
Desautels-Stein, Justin
core   +3 more sources

Privilege and Property. Essays on the History of Copyright [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Copyright law is the site of significant contemporary controversy. In recent years copyright history has transformed as a subject from being one of interest to a few books historians to the focus of sustained historical investigation attracting the ...
Bently, Lionel   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Inside out, outside in: changing perspectives in Australian art historiography [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2011
Beginning from some recollections of art historical training in Australia and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, the author highlights the key role played by art historiographical awareness within revisionist approaches to art history since those ...
Terry Smith
doaj  

One Monument, One Town, Two Ideologies: The Monument to the Victory of Bolzano-Bozen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article offers a critical reading of the first major attempt to publicly come to terms with the presence of an invasive and ideologically charged fascist monument in the border town of Bolzano-Bozen, in South Tyrol, Italy. The ‘Monument to Victory’,
Angelucci, Malcolm, Kerschbamer, Stefano
core   +3 more sources

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

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