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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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Expanding the Use of PAVA Spray in Young Offender Institutions: The King (on the application of The Howard League for Penal Reform) v The Secretary of State for Justice

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This case note critically examines the January 2026 High Court judgment in The King (on the application of The Howard League for Penal Reform) v The Secretary of State for Justice which dismissed a judicial review challenging the expansion of the use of PAVA spray in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) in England.
Raymond Arthur
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X v The Lord Advocate: Challenges and Concerns for Vicarious Liability

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In X v The Lord Advocate, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom held that the Crown cannot be vicariously liable for torts committed by judges. This case note critically examines what could be viewed as two significant doctrinal shifts that were introduced by this ruling.
Haim Abraham
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