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

Gender &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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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Humor, ironia e intertextualidade: produção e consumo da série Narcos no Facebook

Signos do Consumo, 2016
As webséries já se consolidam como prática cultural contemporânea, estruturando novos modelos de negócio e de consumo no setor audiovisual. Objetivamos analisar a página de Narcos no Facebook buscando compreender sua atuação para informar e cativar o ...
Beatriz Braga Bezerra, Rafael Ofemann
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

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Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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O rancor nunca foi tão lucrativo: economia comunicacional do ódio, sociedade de plataformas e circulação de discursos masculinistas

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
O presente artigo tem como proposta discutir as lógicas de circulação dos discursos masculinistas em redes sociais, a partir da noção de economia comunicacional do ódio – que se refere a estruturas informativo-comunicacionais, típicas de plataformas de ...
Eliza Bachega Casadei, Gabriela Pereira
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Fluxos migratórios, comunicação e cidadania: vivências de imigrantes LGBT na cidade de São Paulo

Intexto, 2019
O trabalho objetiva refletir acerca das experiências de vida de imigrantes lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis, transexuais e transgêneros que residem no Brasil, mais especificamente, na cidade de São Paulo.
Hadriel Theodoro, Denise Cogo
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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