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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and ...
Monika Krause
wiley   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
wiley   +1 more source

The Relative Impact of Different News on Stock Returns: Evidence From New Zealand

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the effects of different news events on New Zealand stock returns. Our results indicate that local news, such as announcements from the New Zealand Central Bank interest rate changes (official cash rate) and company earnings reports, generally has a greater impact than international news. However, U.S. Federal Open Market Committee
Rui Ma, Ben R. Marshall, Nhut H. Nguyen, Nuttawat Visaltanachoti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann, Gabriel Brown, Johan Fourie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pedagogical well-being of teachers in different modalities: Input to HyFlex pedagogical wellness model

Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences
This research deals with the understanding and exploring experiences of teachers’ health and pedagogical well-being in online learning, modular, and limited in-person instruction.
Kevin Clyde A. Ong, Ruel T. Bonganciso
doaj   +1 more source

Era negro.

Revista Letras Raras, 2019
Este conto é uma história que representa tantas outras que nunca foram contadas, mas, vividas diariamente pelas pessoas que são deslocadas à margem da sociedade. Revela injutiças e preconceitos que as pessoas sofrem por viverem numa sociedade excludente e opressora.
openaire   +3 more sources

TUBERCULOSIS IN THE NEGRO.

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1903
Tuberculosis was a rare disease among the slaves in the southern states, yet, after a little more than a quarter of a century, it causes more deaths among the emancipated negroes than all the other infectious diseases. The negro death rate from tuberculosis is more than three times that of the whites from the same disease.
openaire   +2 more sources

Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
wiley   +1 more source