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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

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ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

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ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

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ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

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ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977

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ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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