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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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“What Roles for Women?”: Gendering the New International Economic Order at the UN Regional Economic Commission for Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1974 declaration of the New International Economic Order (NIEO), which came just ahead of the UN's International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, attempted a major renegotiation of global inequality without reference to gender. Through the rest of the 1970s, women at the African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW) in Addis Ababa ...
Elizabeth Banks
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Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While gender relations around 1900 were generally marked by sharp dichotomies grounded in nature and the body, the case of naturism appears paradoxical. An influential movement in Germany, it promoted a reform of the body according to natural principles.
Johannes Bosch
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New Goods and New Habits: Cleanliness as a Class Marker and the Making of the Peasant Homemaker, Sweden 1850–1910

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines what cleanliness, that is, hygiene and tidiness, meant for landowning farm households in the county of Härjedalen in the inland of northern Sweden from the 1860s to the 1910s. The period is characterised by a growing understanding of bacteria and of how infectious diseases could be prevented through improved hygiene ...
Marie Ulväng
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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