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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Boards strategizing in liminal spaces: Process and practice, formal and informal. [PDF]

, 2018
Boards operate notionally in a liminal, nonhierarchical space, neither inside the company nor outside, creating ambiguity between service and control functions and fostering tolerance of it.
Concannon, M., Nordberg, Donald
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920 [PDF]

, 2019
This dissertation examines the history of and cultural influences on positivist criminology in the United States. From Benjamin Rush to the present day, the U.S.
Burton, Chase Smith
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Dialogue \u27On The Ground\u27: The Complicated Identities and the Complex Negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India [PDF]

, 2004
Interreligious dialogue is a vital theological concern for the Catholic Church in India. Over the past three decades, church leaders, progressive theologians, and maverick monastics have experimented with various models and forms of interreligious ...
Raj, Selva J.
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THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT, ERANDI BARROSO OLMEDO, FRITZ‐JULIUS GRAFE   +2 more
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Exile and Liminality: Experience between Cultures and Identities [PDF]

, 2015
To describe the exilic condition, many scholars have made use of the concept of liminality. Being neither here (Great Britain as a place of exile) nor there (Latvian exile society as a substitute of a nation) characterizes the life of one of the best ...
Eglāja-Kristsone, Eva
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
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