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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

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
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'Horror in the Nineteenth Century: Dreadful Sensations' in Horror: A literary History ed by Xavier Aldana Reyes (British Library, 2016)

, 2018
A survey of horror literature in the nineteenth century with a particular emphasis on the ...
Mahawatte, Royce
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression

Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral Consequences of the Arendtian Space of Freedom

Constellations, EarlyView.
Seung‐Hwan Hong
wiley   +1 more source

Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
wiley   +1 more source

No one here gets out alive: Educational implications of duomining as aesthetic ground in psychological horror

Cogent Education, 2016
Considering works of Horror artistic manifestations of cultural nightmares, the author takes up the charge that dreams deserve a place in the study of curriculum.
James Grant
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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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Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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