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“The heart and soul of patriotic America”: American conservative women crusading for the “Bricker Amendment” (1953-1957)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2015
This paper will examine the crusade that a group of conservative women, the Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment (VWBA), active in the Republican Party and conservative women’s clubs, carried out to pressure politicians and sway public opinion in ...
Florence Kaczorowski
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Lock up your daughters! Male activists, ‘patriotic domesticity’, and the fight against sex trafficking in England, 1880-1912 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the 1880s, the phenomenon of sex trafficking entered popular consciousness in England following revelations of a trade in English minors to the licensed brothels of the near Continent.
Attwood, R.
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“Thinking your journal unimportant”: A feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape diaries

open access: yesContree, 2012
This article offers a feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from the diaries that Lady Anne Barnard wrote during her stay at the Cape Colony from 1797 until 1802.
Jessica Murray
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Undeclared Colonial Types in Modern Ecuadorian Architecture

open access: yesDearq, 2023
Studying ordinary housing types in Quito for a design studio activity led me to question the limitations of local theoretical accounts of incorporating non-canonical works in the literature.
Marco Salazar Valle
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Peacock and Vine by A. S. Byatt: An Auctorbiography

open access: yesÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020
A.S. Byatt’s latest text, Peacock and Vine, published in 2016, is hard to qualify and thus stands as an exception in her work, or does it? The illustrated book dedicated to the lives and works of William Morris and Mariano Fortuny is not a fiction, but ...
Émilie Walezak
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Review of Marilyn Francus, Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity

open access: yesABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2014
Review of Marilyn Francus. Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2012. Xi + 297pp. Index. ISBN 978-1-4214-0737-1.
Phyllis Ann Thompson
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Masculine roles and practices in homes with photovoltaic systems

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2022
Privately owned, domestic photovoltaic (PV) panels can play an important role in the transition to a low-carbon society by producing renewable energy for the grid and engaging households in energy management.
Mette Mechlenborg, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
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Mary Shelley and Utopian Domesticity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In her seven novels and other writings, Mary Shelley critiques traditional restrictive domestic ideology while developing a feminist utopian vision of domesticity.
Sites, Melissa Jo
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Gothicizing Domesticity – The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2018
It is critical common knowledge that domestic narratives and the structure of traditional domesticity are subverted in Gothic fiction (Smith 2013). The household and its apparent security are threatened from within by unknown supernatural forces.
Băniceru Ana Cristina
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