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Catherine de' Medici and the Forest of Orleans: Queenly Participation in Early Modern French Forest Management

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
wiley   +1 more source

Beauty and Translation: The Analytical Purchase of Diaspora for the Study of the Venezuelan Migration Crisis

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
wiley   +1 more source

Muslimah Label or Sharia-Compliant Brand? A Study on Kirei Salon and Spa Muslimah Bekasi Through The Lens of DSN-MUI Fatwa

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Economic Laws
The growing popularity of Muslimah-branded beauty services raises questions about the authenticity of their compliance with Sharia principles. This study aims to critically examine whether Kirei Salon and Spa Muslimah Bekasi, which adopts an Islamic ...
Vina Fithriana Wibisono   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Curls, Kinks and Colonization: The Decolonization of Afrodescendant Women’s Bodies in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper documents the experiences of Afrodescendant women in the Dominican Republic who choose to wear their hair naturally curly, despite the norm to straighten it.
Wyatt, Allegra
core   +1 more source

Developing Best Practices for Inclusion in fNIRS Research: Equity for Participants With Afro‐Textured Hair

open access: yesDevelopmental Psychobiology, Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a popular optical neuroimaging method; however, participants with Afro‐textured (i.e., dark, coarse, curly) hair are often excluded due to difficulty obtaining sensor–scalp contact. Grounded in lived experience and sociocultural literature, we aimed to develop and evaluate culturally responsive ...
Abria S. Simmons   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Best practice, best teaching [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Keynote address discussing examples from my own, colleagues, and attendees practice. Conference participants worked in groups to share and build upon their existing teaching and learning ...
Bruce-Mayne, Julia
core  

The Association of Hair Dye Use With Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors in the Dutch General Population: A Cross‐Sectional Questionnaire‐Based Study

open access: yesContact Dermatitis, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 137-148, February 2026.
Our findings highlight several positive associations between sociodemographic and lifestyle factors and both hair dye use and its adverse skin reactions. Notably, elevated BMI was consistently and significantly positively associated with both hair dye use and adverse skin reactions.
Fieke M. Rosenberg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

But everyone else is doing it: A closer look at the occupational taxpaying culture of one business sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
When individuals embark on their careers they not only become acculturated into their occupational sectors' day-to-day norms and practices, but also their taxpaying ones.
Adams   +40 more
core   +1 more source

The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 41-54, February 2026.
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional labour and burnout in the hair and beauty industry: A narrative review

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
Hair and beauty work involves more than a service for aesthetic maintenance. Salon workers represent a source of informal care and social support for clients which requires effective inter- and intra-personal skills.
Stacey Mary Page   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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