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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Call it a conspiracy: How conspiracy belief predicts recognition of conspiracy theories.
PLoS ONEWhile conspiracy theories are treated as irrational fringe beliefs in popular culture, conspiracy belief is quite common. Given the disconnect between stereotypes about conspiracy belief and its prevalence, I tested whether people have difficulty ...
J P Prims
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Zmowa nauki. Strach przed technologią we współczesnych amerykańskich teoriach spiskowych
Er(r)go, 2014 Michał Różycki Conspiracy of Science. Technophobia in Contemporary American Conspiracy Theories The goal of the paper is to outline the notion of the fear of technology and mistrust of the scientific establishment present in 21st century American ...
Michał Różycki
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Comparativist Theories or Conspiracy Theories?
The Journal of PhilosophyAlthough physical theories routinely posit absolute quantities, such as absolute position or intrinsic mass, it seems that only comparative quantities such as distance and mass ratio are observable. But even if there are in fact only distances and mass ratios, the success of absolutist theories means that the world looks just as if there are absolute ...
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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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The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle
Constellations, EarlyView.
Reid A. Kleinberg
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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“John Birch Blues”: The Problematization of Conspiracy Theory in the Early Cold-War Era
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2014 This paper argues that the status of conspiracy theory changed from legitimate to illegitimate knowledge in the mid-20th century. By tracing the scientific, cultural, and political discourses of the early Cold-War era I show that World War II, the Red ...
Katharina Thalmann
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Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem
Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
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