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An evolutionary case for polygyny to counter demographic collapse. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Larsen M.
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings

Text Matters, 2013
The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings.
Władysław Witalisz
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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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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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Le personnage d’Iseut dans le « Tristan » de Béroul. Charme et complexité

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2009
Béroul’s Roman de Tristan revolves round Iseut as sole important female character. Her mythical origins show her as a magician and stranger to the values of Marc’s Kingdom.
Jean Louis Benoit
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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La figure de l’Abandonné·e. La littérature médiévale comme manuel d’un retour à soi ?

Perspectives Médiévales
This study aims to reinvestigate the scenarios of the Abandoned within the dialectic of power relations and submission, losses and gains. To circulate these notions, it will rely on those of situated knowledge and standpoint (Donna Haraway, Sandra ...
Dominique Demartini
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Peire Bremon Ricas Novas, “Rics pres, ferms e sobeirans” (BdT 330.15a) [PDF]

Lecturae Tropatorum, 2008
This article provides a new critical edition and a commentary of Peire Bremon Ricas Novas’s “Rics pres, ferms e sobeirans”, a courtly love song composed between 1228 and 1257 and dedicated to Audiart del Baux.
Paolo Di Luca
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AN INTIMATE DIALOGUE WITH GOD IN JOHN DONNE’S “HOLY SONNETS”: PETRARCHAN CONTEXT [PDF]

Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки
The purpose of the paper is to study the images of the platonic and courtly in the protagonist’s personal relations with God in J. Donne’s “Holy Sonnets” in the context of the connection with the Petrarchan tradition.
Mariana M. Markova
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