‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
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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Emotional impact of AI-generated vs. human-composed music in audiovisual media: A biometric and self-report study. [PDF]
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
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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The Making of Everyday Space of Publicness: Insights from a Mall in Beijing. [PDF]
Xu M.
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Creature features: The lively narratives of bacteriophages in Soviet biology and medicine. [PDF]
Myelnikov D.
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Cinema-technicians. The history of amateur film in the period of Polish People’s Republic as a history of technology [PDF]
Haratyk, Paulina
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Stanislaw Lem vs. Andrei Tarkovsky [PDF]
Tarkovsky recognizes these differences, saying that there is a contradiction with Lem's initial idea, because he was interested in the problems of inner life, spiritual problems, so to speak, and Lem was interested in the collision between man and Cosmos.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
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Timeless Radcliffe: A Review of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014) [PDF]
Fisiak, Tomasz
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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