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A History of ‘Religious History’

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Foreword [to Brisbane: The Aboriginal Presence 1824-1860]

open access: yes, 2020
The Foreword discusses the context in which the first edition was published and the demand for a re-issue. It then offers a summary of the new directions scholarship on the Australian frontier and Aboriginal history have gone in the intervening three ...
Connors, Libby
core   +1 more source

NMM 2017 - Nano & Macro Mechanics 2017

open access: yesActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2017
The 8h conference Nano & Macro Mechanics was held in Prague, in September 21, 2017. The conference was organized by Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.The main objective of the conference is to
Editorial, Foreword
doaj  

‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

Driver-Car Interaction and Safety Conference 2023

open access: yesActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings
DCIS 2023 built on previous successful Driver-Car Interaction and Safety Conferences and represented a continuity in a good tradition of sharing actualities of research and industry in the area of driver safety and issues of human-machine interaction ...
Editorial, Foreword
doaj  

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

open access: yesGender &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

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