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Volunteering for Refugees as a Journey of Growth and Pain

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT This narrative study explores how young adults volunteering to help refugees in disaster‐stricken areas reflectively view this journey and its meaning to their lives. A narrative study was conducted with 12 Jewish and Arab young adults who were sent to run a school for refugee children in Greece.
Galit Yanay‐Ventura   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The moon, the creature, and the creator [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Throughout history the story of the werewolf has been iconic and represented by the full moon. When the phase of the moon is full, typically normal people grow fangs and hair similar to a dog.
Worth, Elizabeth
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‘Just Like Normal People’. Social Representations and the Ideology of Ability in Everyday Discourse

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT This research critically examined whether ideological ableism influences understandings of disability among non‐disabled individuals, employing synthesised theories of Social Representations and Ideology of Ability. A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, further informed by Social Representations Theory, was conducted on episodic interview data ...
Leah Partridge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

I Won't Let You Break Me: Black Feminism, Survivance, and the Emergence of Ontological Flexibility

open access: yesDiversity &Inclusion Research, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This manuscript explores the challenges faced by Black women in higher education. Despite the social, educational, and financial benefits of academia, Black women often encounter significant drawbacks, including limited support, mentorship, and funding, as well as experiencing pervasive anti‐Black rhetoric and exclusionary practices.
Lynell S. Hodge, Natasha Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Complications in Medieval English Miracula

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 543-560, July 2025.
Abstract This article re‐examines the evidence about childbirth and related topics in the posthumous miracle collections of English saints. It finds forty‐eight such miracles in collections of thirteen English saints, mostly from the century or so after 1170. The article argues that the context in which the stories were composed is vitally important to
Ben Nilson, Ruth Frost
wiley   +1 more source

Families, insanity and the psychiatric institution in Australia and New Zealand, 1860-1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
International historians have begun to challenge the view that the nineteenth-century psychiatric hospital was a place of horrors and custody, and have shown that families were sometimes intimate with the institutions of the past, often participating in ...
Coleborne, Catharine
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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 561-575, July 2025.
Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
wiley   +1 more source

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