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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth's heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war's calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth's women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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Adolescents' self perceived acne-related beliefs: from myth to science. [PDF]
An Bras Dermatol, 2019 Markovic M +3 more
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Views from the East: changing attitudes to Venice in late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Heterosexual women's pleasure trajectories: How aging helps undo gendered sexual scripts
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Heterosexual women are less likely than heterosexual men to experience pleasure in partnered encounters. However, because most research on women's sexual pleasure focuses on adolescents and young adults, little is known about how processes associated with aging may change heterosexual women's sense of sexual subjectivity and entitlement to ...
Savannah Bastian +2 more
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“Through Thick and Thin” How Black Educators Support Urban Students' Postsecondary Plans
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.How does exposure to Black educators influence minority students' postsecondary planning processes and long‐run educational ambitions? Prior studies have documented positive effects of student‐teacher racial matches on achievement and non‐academic outcomes, but quantitative research designs are often unable to uncover the mechanisms underlying these ...
Joseph Sageman
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Do Healthy City Performance Awards Lead to Health in All Policies? A Case of Taiwan. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019 Huang NC, Kuo HW, Hung TJ, Hu SC.
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Staged ecologies: Aesthetics, nature and infrastructure in the late‐modern metropolis
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper examines the relationship between urban nature and landscape design within a £1.5 billion regeneration project that is currently unfolding in Thamesmead, a town in south‐east London. It develops the notion of ‘staged ecologies’ to examine how urban nature is being spatially and aesthetically arranged across the town's ...
Zuhri James
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On limit and love in times of environmental crises
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract This intervention explores whether ‘love’ offers a politically viable concept in times of environmental crises. Urban political ecology highlights that, in a capitalist society, landed property and material affordances are rigged against the have‐nots; the latter are deprived not only of their aspirations, but also of their basic right ...
Ihnji Jon
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