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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
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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POLICY PHARMACOPEIA: an ethnography of anti-prohibitionism and the struggle for the liberation of marijuana in Colombia

open access: yes, 2017
Resumen: El artículo sintetiza los resultados del trabajo etnográfico desarrollado con el movimiento cannabico de Colombia entre los años 2013 y 2017. En la primera parte, se muestra como la prohibición de las drogas en el país surgió como un arreglo sanitario, moral y económico para monopolizar la producción de medicamentos y venenos. Se argumenta que
openaire   +1 more source

The World Bank's Business Ready Project: The Labor Topic, ILO Standards and the Role and Impact of Labour Regulation

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The World Bank's new Business Ready (B‐READY) project replaces the controversial Doing Business index in assessing global business and investment environments and is intended to galvanise legal reform in countries across the world. The project is driven by a set of indicators that measure and compare key facets of countries' business environments.
Sangheon Lee, Deirdre McCann
wiley   +1 more source

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