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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

From feminine writing to feminine painting

open access: yes, 2016
This thesis derives form Hélène Cixous’ conception of “l’écriture féminine”. Using this concept, art works created by Marina Abramovic and Tracey Emin were analyzed. In relation to the concept of “l’écriture féminine”, an attempt at “la péinture feminine” is proposed. Under the concept of “la péinture feminine” art works were created.
openaire   +1 more source

What Kind of Femininity? The Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement between Revolution, Militarism and Body Politics’

open access: yes, 2019
Women have been at the forefront of many of the political and military struggles in the Kurdish Middle East, most visibly so since the start of the ‘Rojava Revolution’ in 2012.
Käser, Isabel
core  

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond survival: reconstructing body image and femininity after breast cancer. [PDF]

open access: yesRev Assoc Med Bras (1992)
Piato A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Respectable Business Femininity

open access: yes
Respectable Business Femininity is a theory which explains how through their bodies and appearance senior women leaders navigate the dynamic nature of privilege afforded through positions of formal authority.
Grandy G, Mavin S
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Militarized Femininity in Israel

open access: yes, 2019
Israel's history of conflict with its neighbours and the Palestinians, along with its militarized society, has created a militarized femininity that assigns narrow roles to Israeli women in both the armed forces and in civilian life.
Ali, Mariam
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

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