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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin

Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression

Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While gender relations around 1900 were generally marked by sharp dichotomies grounded in nature and the body, the case of naturism appears paradoxical. An influential movement in Germany, it promoted a reform of the body according to natural principles.
Johannes Bosch
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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Representations of Masculinity in Joseph Roth’s Weights and Measures: An Analysis within the Framework of Critical Masculinity Studies

Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur
This study examines Joseph Roth’s Weights and Measures within the framework of critical masculinity studies. Set against the early twentieth century—marked by imperial collapse, war, and shifting social values—Roth’s literature explores statelessness ...
Yeşim Tükel Kanra
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‘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
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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“Note on sex for the aged widower”: On André Brink’s The Rights of Desire

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
This article examines the representation of masculinity in André Brink’s novel, The Rights of Desire. Following a remark in Roger Boylan’s review of the novel in the Boston Review; this analysis concentrates on Brink’s depiction of Afrikaner masculinity ...
Marius Crous
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