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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

An ‘axe for the frozen sea’ : Estrin’s magic agential realism, insect thigmotaxis, and the problem with Kafka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper seeks to demonstrate how Marc Estrin’s Insect Dreams: the Half Life of Gregor Samsa constitutes the first piece of magic agential realist literature about insects.
Chen, Melvin
core  

Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
wiley   +1 more source

FEMINISM AT THE CROSSROADS OF FAITH AND SOCIAL POWER IN DOROTHEA ROSA HERLIANY’S PEREMPUAN BERDOSA

open access: yesSaksama
This article examines the female body within a feminist framework that operates at the intersection of religion and social space through a reading of Dorothea Rosa Herliany’s poem Perempuan Berdosa.
Yoga Sudarisman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating the Digital World: Pre‐Service Teachers' Processes and Perspectives on Evaluating Online Information

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This descriptive case study examined how undergraduate pre‐service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in a digital literacies course evaluated online information as part of a module digital project. PSTs were tasked with assessing peer‐selected online texts using multiple strategies in an unrestricted web environment.
Wen Wen, Yiting Han
wiley   +1 more source

THE FEMALE FIGURE IN IVANA BRLIĆ-MAŽURANIĆ'S THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF APPRENTICE HLAPIĆ

open access: yesFluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2013
This paper develops a feminist analysis of the female characters in the children’s novel The Strange Adventures of Apprentice Hlapić. Ivana Mažuranić’s diaries Good Morning, World! support a subversive reading of the novel.
Lidija Dujić
doaj  

Intersectionality queer studies and hybridity: methodological frameworks for social research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining their common methodological tasks and by tracing some similar difficulties of translating theory into research methods. Intersectionality
Fotopoulou, Aristea
core   +4 more sources

The Dollar's Double Life: Not All Dollar Appreciations Are Born Equal for the Cross‐Currency Basis

open access: yesJournal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the relationship between the US dollar and cross‐currency basis (XCB) swap spreads. We show that the strength and direction of this relationship depend on the prevailing regime of the broad dollar. The evidence suggests that the well‐documented “dollar appreciates, basis widens” result holds primarily when the dollar is in ...
Daniel Felix Ahelegbey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Induced abortion in the world: 3. In search of a minimum common ground

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The rising worldwide trend toward legalization of termination of pregnancy has been accompanied by increased polarization around abortion. Two opposite broad coalitions emerged from this confrontation, generally known as the “pro‐life” and “pro‐choice” movements. The basic issue for pro‐life advocates is that the protection of “innocent, human
Giuseppe Benagiano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbial influences on immune modulation and colorectal cancer progression through combined transcriptomic and microbiomic analysis

open access: yesiMetaOmics, EarlyView.
Schematic representation of the distinct tumor microenvironment characteristics in CA1 and CA2 subtypes. CA1 illustrates an immune‐active tumor microenvironment characterized by elevated infiltration of immune cells, particularly CD8 + T cells and macrophages, and enhanced IFN‐γ signaling.
Shuting Xia   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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