Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Reclaiming human dignity: a critical review of contemporary theories in light of ontological foundations. [PDF]
Frantz P, Rego F, Barbas S.
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Digital (mis)trust: ethnographic encounters with computational forms. [PDF]
Maguire J, Albris K.
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Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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The Psychology of Testimony and the Interrogation of Children: Contesting the Expertise of Teachers and Female Police Officers, circa 1922-1944. [PDF]
Schlicht L.
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Marketing behind charity: Media narratives of tobacco industry donations in China. [PDF]
Chen Y +9 more
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'I'm doomed!': audience responses to media reporting on the link between sleep and Alzheimer's disease. [PDF]
Breheny M, Ross I, Gibson R.
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Disambiguating sentiment annotation: A mixed methods investigation of annotator experience and impact of instructions on annotator agreement. [PDF]
Äyräväinen LEM, Hinds J, Davidson BI.
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Quantifying Global Foreign Affairs with a Multimodal Dataset of Diplomatic Websites. [PDF]
Muğurtay N +10 more
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