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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2011 The author analyses Perun, a supreme Storm-God in Old-Slavic pagan religion and mythology, which is correlated to rock, thunder, lightning and rain, war and justice.
Michał Łuczyński
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Issues of Mythology and Mythological Thinking in Philology
, 2023 This article analyzes the content of mythology and mythological thinking within the framework of basic research. Also, mythological thinking is directly analyzed as an ancient form of understanding the world, society and man. At the same time, mythological thinking was approached as the basis of new scientific ideas.
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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MYTHOLOGY AND NATURE IN SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHY
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2015 According to a scientist standpoint, mythology holds no value whatsoever. This is nothing but a mass of superstitions: a polymorphic arbitrariness of imagination.
Angela KUN
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The Articulation of Sauropod Necks: Methodology and Mythology
PLoS ONE, 2013 Sauropods are often imagined to have held their heads high atop necks that ascended in a sweeping curve that was formed either intrinsically because of the shape of their vertebrae, or behaviorally by lifting the head, or both.
K. A. Stevens
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Rethinking Greek Mythology and Indian Mythology
, 2022 This paper aims to look at Greek mythology, the “Iliad” and Indian mythology, “Ramayana” as a comparative study to foster common similarities based on plot construction and art of characterization. For this purpose, it would like to examine male and female characters in Greek mythology; myth in gender studies, gender in myth studies; truth, falsehood ...
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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1880 n ...
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From faith to food: using oral history to study corporate mythology in Canadian manufacturing firms [PDF]
, 2014 The study of corporate mythology, particularly through oral history, has received increasing attention from business historians. The role of corporate mythology is examined at two Canadian manufacturing companies: Loewen (a wooden window manufacturer in ...
Thiessen, Janis
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Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each
Emily Cock
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