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The 2004 Elections in Northern Ghana

, 2005
A study of the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2004 in Ghana, focusing on the particular issues that led to the three Norethern Regions defying the nnational trend and voting for the opposition NDC.
Kelly, Bob
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‘Forebears’, ‘saints’ and ‘martyrs’: the politics of commemoration in Bulgaria in the 1880s and 1890s [PDF]

, 2008
Book description: The relationship between states, societies, and individuals in Central and Eastern Europe has been characterised by periods of change and redefinition.
Detchev, S.
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source

Folklore motifs and plots in oral narratives about the “Holy War”

Studia Humanitatis, 2021
The paper contains the memories of the Great Patriotic War recorded during the interview which reflect both tragic and comic moments, as well as resourcefulness, childlike spontaneity, and the sincerity of experiences.
Litsareva Alexandra Fedorovna
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From Swedish folk music to world music : Johan Hedin’s transition from keyed fiddle player to modern composer [PDF]

, 2006
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Ling, Jan
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION OF STUDENTS (ON EXAMPLE OF HEROIC TRADITIONS OF CITIES OF MILITARY GLORY)

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2014
The article is devoted to the issue of establishing the honorary titles “Hero-city” in the USSR and “City of military glory” in the Russian Federation.
S S Sinyutin
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