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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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‘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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How Russia's war in Ukraine can change gender studies. [PDF]

Front Sociol, 2023
Johnson JE.
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there is no definition of grounds in general or a definition of grounds such as race or sex in particular in equality law. This article shows that in defining the
Shreya Atrey
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From Prohibition to Digitalisation: 100 Years of Cameras in the Courtroom

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article traces the shifting relationship between the courts, the public, and the media in England and Wales from the 1925 prohibition on courtroom photography to the contemporary regime of livestreamed and recorded proceedings. It situates the introduction of the ban on courtroom images within the first administrative turn of the judiciary, when ...
Ozan Kamiloglu, Kanika Sharma
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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El “Gran Hombre” y la construcción de la identidad africana en Un recodo en el río de V.S. Naipaul

Cambios y Permanencias, 2018
At A bend in the riverV.S. Naipaul tells the story of an African postcolonial country after a coup, which is reconfigured through the charisma and public policies of their president, who is labeled as the "Great Man".
Irene Becerril Arostegui
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The ephemerality and micro-historicity of the postcolonial-urban: a critical case study of Asia’s urban mobility

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
A global trend indicates a significant decline in physical activity, with more people opting to drive, often due to genuine or perceived safety concerns about other modes of transport or as a display of social status.
Francis Chia Hui Lin
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Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures. [PDF]

Br J Sociol, 2022
Ali S.
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