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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser

open access: yesKvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2015
I dette nummer anmeldes følgende: "Moderne litteraturteori 10: Feminisme" (Lilian Munk Rösing og Tania Ørum (red.)), "Lesbianism in Swedish Literature. An Ambiguous Affair" (Jenny Björklund), "Har videnskaben køn? Kvinder i forskning" (Bente Rosenbeck), "
Anne Holm   +4 more
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[Review of] David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, and Douglass L. Brownstone. Island of Hope, Island of Tears [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
The most compelling aspect of this dramatic history of immigration to the United States via Ellis Island is its vivid documentation of actual human experiences.
Zimmerman, Zora Devrnja
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Intimate citizenship and gendered well-being: the claims and interventions of women’s movements in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
European social movements improve the well-being of men and women but need further analysis through a gender-sensitive lens. Taking an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this book examines the impact of European social movements on ...
Crowhurst, Isabel   +4 more
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Aspects of Radical Gay Liberation Theory in West Germany's Tuntenstreit, 1973–1975

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines in depth the theoretical positions of the Tuntenstreit – a major theoretical dispute within the radical West German gay liberation movement in the 1970s. By working through archival material as well as the dispute's fundamental texts, it renders visible its often‐neglected underlying theoretical motifs and, consequently ...
Hauke Branding
wiley   +1 more source

The courage to be herself: Daisy Miller unbowed

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
We follow 11 English and Drama students from Université Bordeaux Montaigne as they travel to Vercelli, Piedmont, to perform Daisy Miller in the magnificent historic buildings of the Teatro Civico for the TiLLiT festival (Teatro in Lingua, Lingua in ...
Jean-Rémi Lapaire, Raphaël Bzar
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

Making a Mockery of Family Life? Lesbian Mothers in the British Media [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
In Britain, the legal treatment of lesbian mothers and co-parents has improved considerably over the past 15 years (Harne et al, 1997). Despite this, they are still vilified in occasional outbursts in the popular press.
Alldred, P
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