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Entorno social y obesidad infantil: implicaciones para la investigación y la práctica en Estados Unidos y en los países latinoamericanos. [PDF]

Obes Rev, 2021
Resumen El entorno en el que viven los niños influye en su riesgo de sufrir obesidad debido, entre otros factores, a los comportamientos relacionados con el peso (es decir, a la dieta y la actividad física). En este artículo presentaremos evidencia sobre los factores socioambientales asociados a la dieta y la actividad física de los niños y, de forma ...
Ayala GX, Monge-Rojas R, King AC, Hunter R, Berge JM.   +4 more
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The Commission Knocked Out Cold: Laura Serrano and the End of the Mexico City Prohibition of Women's Boxing in the 1990s

Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1135-1152, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines the conflict over the legalisation of women's boxing in Mexico City in the 1990s. In 1995, Laura Serrano's Women's International Boxing Federation world boxing title put pressure on the legal system that had banned women from professional boxing in the Mexican capital since 1946.
Marjolein Van Bavel
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Crossroads of Identities in Women Religious in Spain. Catholicism, Society and Second Vatican Council (1953–69)*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 469-485, September 2023., 2023
This article examines the evolution and transformation of female religious life in Spain under Franco's regime, which began after the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and ended with the dictator's death in 1975. During the dictatorship, the public stance towards Catholicism made consecrated religious life one of the potential social undertakings for women at ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona

Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 574-589, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)

Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 42-58, March 2022., 2022
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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Catholic Dressing in the Spanish Franco Dictatorship (1939–1975): Normative Femininity and Its Sartorial Embodiment

Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 582-602, December 2021., 2021
The Francoist state, in collusion with the Church, tried to domesticate women's bodies and encode dressing patterns in accordance with Catholic moral doctrine. This article interrogates the normative notion of femininity in Francoism, focusing on ecclesiastical discourse and Catholic dress code. The Church dictated dressing norms, and the Franco regime
Uxía Otero‐González
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Catholic Housewives in Transition: The Centres for the Promotion of Women between the Franco Dictatorship and Democracy in Spain (1960–1980)

Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 623-643, December 2021., 2021
This article aims to study the history of the Centres for the Promotion of Women in relation to the changing religious and gender identities of Spanish women. The first centre was founded by the lay organisation Catholic Action Women in 1959 and similar centres quickly spread across the country, giving access to basic education to many women from a ...
Eider de Dios‐Fernández, Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco   +1 more
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Risky Appearances, Skillful Performances: Female Islamic Preachers and Professional Style in Malaysia

American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 278-291, June 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Mass involvement of women in Islamic associations and public religious expressions has led to an unprecedented demand for women Islamic authorities. Yet, paradoxically, the global Islamic revival has also strengthened conservative norms with regard to the exposure of women's bodies and voices.
David Kloos
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Between Virgins and Priests: The Feminisation of Catholicism and Priestly Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Spain

Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
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Introducción a "L'imaginaire" de Chrétien de Troyes : la feminidad causa de "conflicto heroico en Erec, Cliges, Perceval"

Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013
En tres novelas de Chrétien de Troyes ("Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Le Conte du Graal") la "feminidad", que se manifiesta bajo una multiplicidad de formas, acecha la ascensión heroica del caballero.
María Jesús Salinero Cascante
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