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Review of “Who Will Lament Her?”: The Feminine and the Fantastic in the Book of Nahum by Laurel Lanner. (Book Review). Review of Sex Working and the Bible by Avaren Ipsen. (Book Review.) [PDF]

, 2010
Reviews of: LAUREL LANNER, “Who Will Lament Her?”: The Feminine and the Fantastic in the Book of Nahum (LHBOTS, 434; New York, T & T Clark, 2006), pp. X + 270. £80.00. ISBN 10: 0-567-02602-7. AVAREN IPSEN, Sex Working and the Bible (London: Equinox,
Bigger, Stephen
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Joyce Carol Oates: Fantastic, New Gothic and Inner Realities

Journal of the Short Story in English, 2014
Joyce Carol Oates fait appel, de manière récurrente dans ses nouvelles, à des événements d’ordre surnaturel : des bruits émanant d’un autre monde peuvent déboucher sur des découvertes macabres ; des créatures fantastiques peuvent cohabiter avec les personnages ; des expériences peuvent se dérouler dans la zone liminale entre rêve et réalité.
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Avatar actors [PDF]

, 2013
In this text I wish to discuss, as well as illustrate through pictorial examples, how the Live Visuals of three dimensional online virtual worlds may be leading us into participatory and collaborative Play states during which we appear to become the ...
Ayiter, Elif
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &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
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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Toward a Critique of Critique: Paradoxes of Byung‐Chul Han and the Dialectic of Despair and Possibility

Constellations, EarlyView.
İbrahim Berkan Karataş
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Reconsidering Instrumentality, From Mechanical Causality to Overdetermination and Political Articulation

Constellations, EarlyView.
Abdellatif Atif
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