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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source

Pedagogical strategies for mitigating foreign language anxiety: a mixed-methods study of first-semester undergraduate students

Frontiers in Education
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) is widely recognized as a significant affective factor influencing second language learning, particularly among non-native learners.
Md. Nurul Haque, Niroj Dahal, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Netra Kumar Manandhar, Hiralal Kapar, Ramazan Zengin, Sumona Sharmin   +6 more
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign language anxiety in English language learning

, 2017
Bu çalışma, yabancı dil kaygısı sorununu hem yabancı dil öğrencilerinin hem de öğretmenlerinin bakış açısından inceleyerek literatüre katkı sağlar. Bu çalışma aynı zamanda hazırlık okulu öğrencilerinin İngilizce derslerindeki yabancı dil kaygılarının sebeplerini ortaya çıkarmayı ve hazırlık okulu öğrencilerinin yabancı dil kaygısını azaltmanın veya bu ...
openaire   +1 more source

On emotions in foreign language learning and use

, 2015
Emotions are at the heart of the foreign language learning process. Without emotion, boredom would reign and very little learning would take place.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

Greek University Students’ Foreign Language Learning Classroom Anxiety

Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Language
This research paper investigates the impact of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) on the academic performance of first-year students enrolled in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses at the University of Patras.
Ourania Katsara
doaj   +1 more source