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The Aggrieved Subject: Culture Wars and Recognition Rights

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrew Fagan
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Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
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“You will see the logic of the design of this”: from historiography to taxonomography in the contemporary metafiction of Sarah Waters’s Affinity [PDF]

, 2013
Although, in some ways, Sarah Waters’s Affinity looks akin to historiographic metafiction, M.-L. Kohlke has persuasively argued that the text is more accurately dubbed “new(meta)realism”, a mode that demonstrates the exhausted potential of the form. This
Eve, Martin Paul
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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“Here we are … somewhere else, some other time”: The Referencing of Modernism in the Reception of Two British Metamodern Novels [PDF]

Acta Philologica
This article investigates the use of references to (High) Modernism in the reception of two contemporary British novels that have been categorised as metamodern by scholars: Will Self’s Umbrella (2012) and Zadie Smith’s NW (2012).
Dennis Kersten, Usha Wilbers
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The Post-War Novel in Crisis: Three Perspectives [PDF]

, 2005
Three major novelists of the period following the second world war, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul, have pondered the question of why the post-war novel is unable to achieve the heights of its nineteenth-century predecessors. Each of these
Dooley, Gillian Mary
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Soothsaying song thrushes and life-giving snails : motifs in A.S. Byatt's "Babel Tower" and "A whistling woman"

Journal of English Studies, 2010
Thrushes and snails are scattered throughout the pages of A .S. Byatt’s Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, functioning as motifs that link the main narrative with its intertexts, thematically and symbolically.
Jennifer Anne Johnson
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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