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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &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
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &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
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Souvenirs d’enfance d’Agrippa d’Aubigné

Voix Plurielles, 2010
C’est désormais un lieu commun de la critique que d’opposer génériquement mémoires et autobiographie par le critère du récit d’enfance : les Mémoires porteraient témoignage des faits accomplis par l’être responsable et social, l’adulte, tandis que l ...
Hélène Cazes
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Stigmatisations tenaces. Figures du rebelle et de la « fausse » victime dans le Pérou d’après-guerre

Cahiers du MIMMOC
Cet article analyse les jeux performatifs autour de la catégorie de victime du conflit armé interne péruvien. Sa construction idéalisée d’absolue extériorité aux groupes armés s’avère à la fois éthiquement rassurante, politiquement efficace, socialement ...
Dorothée Delacroix
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"Mémoires d'Indochine" 2020 : séance 7

, 2020
Année universitaire 2020-2021 / Master Asie Orientale Contemporaine (ASIOC) / Semestre 1 ENS de Lyon / Sciences Po Lyon « Mémoires online : commémorations officielles et récits alternatifs » Montagnards armés des hauts-plateaux du centre du Viêt
indomemoires
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Archives et mémoires étudiantes : « non-lieu » de « mémoire » ?

In Situ, 2012
Heritage, including archivistical, of the student worlds and movements, has not enough a little legitimate place, particularly in France. After having established various disappearances of this heritage in constant loss, we investigate the causes ...
Jean-Philippe Legois
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« Mémoires d’Indochine » 2020 : Séance 6

, 2020
Année universitaire 2020-2021 / Master Asie Orientale Contemporaine (ASIOC) / Semestre 1 ENS de Lyon / Sciences Po Lyon « Mémoires online : commémorations officielles et récits alternatifs » ★ ★ ★ Filles d’un groupement de Jeunesses de choc ...
indomemoires
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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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