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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Preemption of Police Reform: A Roadblock to Racial Justice [PDF]
, 2022 In 2020, nearly half of the largest U.S. cities reoriented municipal spending priorities by directing money from their police budgets to social services; for many cities, these budgetary changes reversed decades of increases.
Davidson, Nestor, Roy, Marissa, Su, Rick
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Daniel Donnelly, MUNICIPAL POLICING IN SCOTLAND Dundee: Dundee University Press (www.dup.dundee.ac.uk), 2008. xx + 284 pp. ISBN 9781845860479. £25. [PDF]
, 2009 Alistair Henry
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Addressing barriers to promotion for female officers in municipal policing in Canada [PDF]
, 2020 Female police officers face numerous barriers to promotion in municipal policing in Canada. For a variety of reasons, including that policing remains male-dominated, there are very few female officers in higher ranking positions in municipal police ...
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women and Moroccan soldiers who had fought in France during the Second World War.
Catherine Phipps
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Withholding homicide victim names: Looking for a win-win solution for families and the police
Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2019 Although withholding the names of homicide victims from the public is a relatively new police practice, it has proven to be controversial, with the media, legal scholars, and victim advocacy groups often opposing these policies.
Rick Ruddell, Jody Burnett
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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
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Modeling and Simulation of Coupled Network Public Opinion Propagation Across Social Media Platforms [PDF]
Nongye tushu qingbao xuebao[Purpose/Significance] With the advancement of communication technology and the popularization of smart mobile devices, social media platforms have developed rapidly.
Deming ZHENG, Sijia LI, Jianlong ZHENG, Zhaoxin WANG
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