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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2014 This paper proposes a political and social analysis of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de Amor. Our starting point will be the Laureola's rejection, which will contrast with the king's refusal to request of his vassals.
Joaquín Márquez
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Messages, Sages and Ages, 2016 The article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales discusses human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an (in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that ...
Popescu Dan Nicolae
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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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‘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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Literature and its modality of love: a psychoanalytic approach
Signo, 2015 Psychoanalysis has always needed art, in special literature, but also, visual and scenic art to reveal what theory cannot see, by representing structures and procedures of psychical and social functioning.
Ernesto Söhnle
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The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jamie Mayerfeld
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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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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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Amor e interioridade no Ocidente Medieval: as cansos de Guilherme IX
Ler História, 2009 This article explores the emergence of the inner-self in the Middle’ Ages, through the study of the songs written by the first troubadour, William, Duke of Aquitaine. The work proposes to raise questions about the relevancy of the concept of self applied
Nilton Mullet Pereira
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