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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Craft: Utilizing Hand Embroidery Technique for Production of Home Decorating Articles

open access: yesInternational Journal of Home Economics, Hospitality and Allied Research
This study examined enhancing craft by utilizing hand embroidery technique for the production of home decorating articles. The purpose of the study was to identify fundamental techniques of hand embroidery that could be used for production of home ...
Comfort Ukrajit Sonye   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Crafting sustainable repairs: practice-based approaches to extending the life of clothes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Mass-produced ‘fast fashion’ has changed our relationship with clothing – cheap and easy to acquire, we are unlikely to take time to undertake simple repairs or address issues of maintenance, often caused or exacerbated by poor construction and low ...
McLaren, A, Mclauchlan, S
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking Chart 2005 Adidas Group, Turkey 07037655D [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Fair Labor Association
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
wiley   +1 more source

The Secret Language of Bulgarian Embroidery

open access: yesПедагогически форум, 2018
As contemporary members of an informational society we are often separated from the heritage and art works and at the same time the global Internet is fostering our abilities to search for deeper meanings.
Petya Veleva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Jacob Schlaephor, a case study in laser innovation and the unexpected

open access: yes, 2010
This report aims to counter some assumptions about the nature of industrial technology by exploring the creative potential of the distance inherent in laser materials processing between designer and manufactured product.A case study of an industrially ...
Huddleston, R., Whittaker, P.
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Psychological phenomenon of UKRAINIAN FOLK EMBROIDERY [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Стаття присвячена психологічному феномену української народної вишивки, а саме, розвиваючим та терапевтичним можливостям вишивки. Акцент поставлено на семантичному значенні української народної вишивки. Розглядаються також питання, пов’язані з розвитком
Сабол, Діана Михайлівна
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