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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

The mass literature as a globalisation product (observation of genre-variety of the modern Turkish prose)

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2012
Having some specific literary features and themes the Turkish mass literature of the beginning of XXIst century, included in global literary processes, is developing according to the main world literary trends.
L V Sofronova
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BYLINA AS A LITERARY GENRE

open access: yesПроблемы исторической поэтики, 2015
The bylina is a Russian epic song about the bogatyrs. Diff erent genre transformations of bylinas are known in folklore: prosaic narrations [pobyval’shchiny], bogatyr tales, legends about the bogatyrs, lubok tales about the feats of the bogatyrs and knights.
openaire   +1 more source

The Impact of Computer-Based Instruction of Literary Genres on Student Achievement

open access: yes, 2006
This research study was conducted to determine the impact of computer-based instruction (CBI) on student achievement of literary genres. Student attitudes toward using CBI for instruction were examined.
Bearden, Kristi
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
wiley   +1 more source

From Genre Poetics to Structure: Nada Milošević-Đorđević's Contribution to Serbian Structural Folklore Studies

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
This paper looks at the structural analyses of the composition of several oral literary genres in Serbian literature performed by Prof. Nada Milošević- Đorđević. By analyzing romantic tales, religious tales, tales of fate and sagas, Milošević-Đorđević, a
Dragana Antonijević
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Mankamęty, poliględźby, bezecenzje... Barańczakś private theory of literary genres

open access: yes, 2006
This review is a guidebook to private literary genres, created by Nike prizewinner, a distinguished poet, critic and literary interpreter of Stanislaw Baraňczak's literature.
Pachołowska, Dorota
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