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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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Negotiating (collective) identity, authentication and community in youth talk about comedy
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis study explores the intricate dynamics of comedy reception and identity construction within a group of teenage girls. It examines how, by assessing internet comedians and their work, they are at the same time negotiating collective and local ...
Martina Wiksten
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La religion de Madame Riccoboni dans sa correspondance
L'Atelier du CRH, 2009 Daughter of a man judged for bigamy, hidden in a convent as illegitimate child, then comedian when Church excommunicated comedians, Mme Riccoboni was an acquaintance of Marivaux and Luigi Riccoboni’s daughter in law and on the other hand, she was ...
Marie–Pierre Legrand
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III +2 more
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Ideologies in Nigerian Stand-up Comedy
Linguistik Online, 2019 The bond between language and ideology has caught the attention of discourse analysts. Investigating this bond, discourse analysts have further demonstrated that everyday interactions are embedded in and with different ideologies.
Ibukun Finali, Temitope Michael Ajayi
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.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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Stand-up Comedy as an Interartistic Genre in Contemporary Literature [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیStand-up Comedy is a type of audio-visual art that has received serious attention in recent decades. It is a combination of verbal and dramatic arts derived from Oral literature and deeply ingrained in folk culture.
Ahmad Razi, Mobina Abedi
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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