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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &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
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Demography of Literary Form: Probabilistic Models for Literary History
, 2013 Digitization of library collections has made millions of books, newspapers, and academic journal articles accessible. These resources present an opportunity for historians interested in identifying patterns in cultural production that emerge over the ...
Riddell, Allen
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Croatian Baroque literature includes many valuable authors, a lot of whom have distinguished themselves over the years, which is why they are nowadays included in the canon of Croatian literature.
Radovan, Josip
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Suetonius on the emperor: studies in the representation of the emperor in the Caesars
, 1980 A study of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars as a gallery of portraits of Roman emperors. The object is to make sense of Suetonius' methods of depicting emperors as emperors and to ask what light is cast on contemporary perceptions of the role of the ...
Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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The dorian dilemma: Problems and interpretations of social change in late Helladic iii c and dark age Greece with reference to the archaeological and literary evidence [PDF]
, 1986 Early Greek history, i.e. Greek history prior to about the mid-sixth century B.C., is as obscure to modern historians as it was to the ancient ones. One of the events which has been mentioned and described by ancient sources and is supposed to have ...
Dierckx, Heidi
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Review of April London's 'Literary History Writing, 1770-1820'
, 2019 April London aptly begins her book, Literary History Writing, 1770-1820, with a commentary on the elusive nature of literary history. Referencing David Perkins, Lawrence Lipking, and others, she notes the extent to which deconstruction, structuralism ...
Fermanis, Porscha
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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The literary impact of the Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (1 791-1804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom in Europe, accelerated the abolitionist movement, precipitated rebellions in neighbouring territories, and intensified both repression and antislavery sentiment.
Kaisary, Philip James
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