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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &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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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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LA POLÍTICA LINGÜÍSTICA DE CERTIFICACIÓN DE LA COMPETENCIA EN LENGUA EXTRANJERA EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA: UN ANÁLISIS DESDE EL DISCURSO THE LINGUISTIC POLICY OF CERTIFICATION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE AT THE UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA: A DISCOURSE BASED ANALYSIS

open access: yesIkala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2012
En este artículo se examinan algunos discursos sobre la Política Lingüística de Certificación de la Competencia en Lengua Extranjera (PL de CCLE) en la Universidad de Antioquia, con el fin de analizar las apreciaciones, percepciones y posiciones desde el
Elsa Adriana Restrepo Sepúlveda
doaj  

Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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Is nature natural?

open access: yesNuclear Physics B
Contribution to "A Master's Journey through the Two Standard Models: A volume dedicated to the Memory of Steven Weinberg".
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The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

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