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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Performance evaluation and environmental sustainability assessment of ferrock-infused concrete. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Vijayan DS, Swamy KR, Jayaseelan R, Devarajan P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
wiley   +1 more source

Synergistic enhancement of strength and durability in self-healing concrete using treated pineapple fibres and bacterial mineralization. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nair PS, Gupta R, Agrawal V, Thomas BS, Berhe MA, Mydin MAO.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Moral Consequences of the Arendtian Space of Freedom

Constellations, EarlyView.
Seung‐Hwan Hong
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Midcheek Deficiency and Tear Trough Deformity Using a Hammer-Shaped Orbital Fat Transposition: A Single-Center Review of 523 Patients. [PDF]

Aesthet Surg J Open Forum
Tang H, Xiao Y, Ng K, Wang Y, Wu D, Fan P.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Buffering and energy-absorbing characteristics of disc spring composite monomer under impact dynamic load. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Du M, Wang Z, Zhang K, Liu Y, Zhang D, Yang S, Yu T, Ma J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘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
wiley   +1 more source