“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
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 interplay of economic shocks and cultural practices in child marriage: Comparative evidence from India and Zambia during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Mounchid PM, Shukla S, Steinert JI.
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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The impact of residential segregation on life satisfaction among rural-urban migrants in China: the mediating role of social capital. [PDF]
Hou J, Yue Z.
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Integration Through Rights: Towards an Associational Paradigm
Integration policies in the EU and the UK have over the past two decades increasingly emphasised duties and constraints for migrants. This article challenges the duty‐based model and proposes an alternative legal conception: ‘integration through rights’, with associational rights taking a central role.
Sarah Ganty, Clíodhna Murphy
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Marrying for power: Gendered alliances in mafias. [PDF]
Catino M, Aziani A, Rocchi S.
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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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Factors influencing the decision to opt out of basic medical insurance among China's migrant population: a logistic regression analysis. [PDF]
Li X, Zuo H, Li M.
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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Prevalence and factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Hoima district, Uganda: A community-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Wandeka JW +3 more
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