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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &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
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Is There an Employment Advantage for Immigrant Women Who Marry Natives in Italy? [PDF]

Eur J Popul
Justiniano Medina AC, Valentova M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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The PRO-GRESS model: A conceptual framework for gender-responsive reproductive health promotion among survivors of child marriage. [PDF]

Dialogues Health
Mulyaningsih EA, Nurhaeni IDA, Anantanyu S, Lestari A, Saptaningtyas H.   +4 more
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‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
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Educational Expansions and Fertility: Evidence from Norwegian College Reforms. [PDF]

Eur J Popul
Rogne AF, Fauske A, Hart RK.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Cohort Profile Update: The Young Lives study. [PDF]

Int J Epidemiol
Favara M, De Los Ángeles Molina M, Sánchez A, Mohsini K, Woldehanna T, Pankhurst A, Revathi E, Campos A, Curi-Quinto K, Rojas V.   +9 more
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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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The evolution of birth-order-specific son preference and compulsory primary education: Evidence from Vietnam. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hasegawa R.
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