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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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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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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Teresa Moure’s Writing and Feminine Identity
, 2015 This brief study will explore how the key themes of Teresa Moure’s writing are developed in the 2005 essay A palabra das fillas de Eva and will chart their evolution in the 2012 publication Queer-emos un mundo novo. The investigation will also examine how the writer applies the theory of her essays to her fiction in the novel Herba Moura (2005).
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The feminine writing in O Texto-Catarina
, 2022 The article proposes a reading of the book O Texto-Catarina, by Maria Gabriela Llansol, from the assumptions about “feminine writing”, by Lucia Castello Branco, articulated to the Llansolian figure of “nobody’s feminine” and to the operator of the same name, developed by Lucia Castello Branco, based on Llansonian figure and on Lacanian ideas about ...
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Revista Brasileira do Caribe, 2017 Este estudo pretende demonstrar a relação entre gênero, sexo e escrita em Nada Cotidiana (1995) da cubana Zoé Valdés (1959-). Desde o exilio e a marginação por ser mulher e escritora, a autora recorre a diferenciadas estratégias femininas/feministas ...
Brígida M. Pastor
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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AnclajesEl objetivo principal de este artículo es analizar la novela Amargo el fondo (1957), de Gloria Stolk. El interés por esta novela parte del cambio que supuso en la trayectoria de la escritora y en la escritura femenina venezolana dicha publicación.
Carmen Victoria Vivas Lacour
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