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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source

‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Pakistan lags behind in technical textile [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper highlights and demonstrates the technical and economical impact of technical textiles in the industrially developed countries and their future contribution to the development of economics of newly developing countries, such as China, South ...
JANJHJI, NOOR ZAMAN, MEMON, NOOR AHMED
core   +1 more source

Lessons on touch: Caring for pesticide exposure in toxic geographies

open access: yesGeographical Research, EarlyView.
This article studies touch as a tool to sense and care for chronic pesticide exposure. It uncovers how agricultural communities come in contact with toxic chemicals and learn to live within toxic geographies as well as possible. Such understandings can cultivate more compassionate and liveable worlds.
Mayra Sánchez Barba
wiley   +1 more source

Menstrual Wellbeing of Professional Workers: A Work Demands‐Resources Perspective

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Menstrual symptoms compromise the menstrual wellbeing of more than a quarter of the global workforce. However, to the best of our knowledge, the human resource management (HRM) literature, as well as the HR policy and practice, is almost silent on employee menstrual wellbeing.
Muhammad Shujahat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How did Japan catch‐up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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