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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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A Study of Leisure and Life Satisfaction of Foreign Laborers?The Case Study of Philippine and Thai Laborers in Tao-Yuan County

, 2009
[[abstract]]Currently there are about 300,000 foreign laborers in Taiwan. According to the literature review, foreign laborers? issues are usually related to economic and social problems.
HSIN CHUN CHING
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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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The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Leisure Pcipation of Senior High School Students in Dali City

, 2009
[[abstract]]The purpose of these studies were: (a) to understand the current status of the emotional intelligence and leisure participation of senior high school students in Dali City, (b) compare the differences of demographic variables in emotional ...
Chen,Li-An
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Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
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The Study of the Elders?Leisure of the Constraint and the Preference in Taichung City

, 2009
[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to research the study of the elders? leisure of the constraint and the preference in Taichung City, discussing and analyzing the present studies. We hoped that the plans of improvement could help with the elders?
Chi-Min Lai
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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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The study of the relationships among voluntary staff’s leisure attitude, leisure constraints, and leisure benefits at Army aviation train command.

, 2017
[[abstract]]This study aims to understand the relationship of leisure attitude, leisure barrier and leisure benefit. A questionnaire survey was conducted by 300 volunteer volunteers from the Army Aviation Training Department of Tainan City.
HUNG, TZU-PIN
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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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Media representations of leisure and gender at the second home

, 2018
Studying how gender is represented in the media provides an avenue into the inner workings and values of a society, as the media is both a reflection and an influencer of socio-cultural norms. The recreational second home is an important site for leisure
Walters, Trudie
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