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ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III +2 more
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The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods [PDF]
A recent workshop entitled The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human ...
Alessio Boattini +66 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
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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Przezwiska antroponimiczne i przydomki w Pisarzowej
The article concerns anthroponymic cognomina and nicknames in Pisarzowa. In the field research, the total number of 142 cognomina and nicknames were collected. In the small community of the village, cognomina and nicknames lightly dominate the surnames.
Małgorzata Kowalska
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Indigenous Knowledge in Acholi Nicknames
Rationale of Study – Nicknames are a cultural experience. In some contexts, they are perceived as ‘little’ names that are different from ‘official’ names. Therefore, a nickname is a part of personal identity.
J.P. Odoch Pido
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Nicknames as sex-role stereotypes [PDF]
Nicknames are powerful indicators of attitudes towards gender categories and because of their transient and optional nature, it has been argued that they are more likely to show a closer relationship to ongoing trends in the culture and society than ...
Bosch, B, De Klerk, Vivian A
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Symbolic Interactionist Sociology and Onomastics
This study demonstrates that personal names present an excellent opportunity for symbolic interaction sociologists to engage in research devoted to determining the nature and structure of their key variable, meaning.
Donna K. Darden
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THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time
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 +2 more
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