Socio-economic influences on self-rated health in Russian men and women - a life course approach
Socio-economic differentials in health in Russia are not well understood and the life course approach has been relatively neglected. This paper examines the influence of socio-economic risk factors over the life course on the self-rated health of older ...
Murphy, Michael J. +9 more
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The Metrics of Four Czech Poets in Russian Translations
The paper considers the poetry of four Czech authors – František Gellner, Viktor Dyk, Karel Toman, and Fráňa Šrámek – in their Russian-language translations. Based on known published translations made by 17 Russian translators throughout the 20th century,
Kolár, Robert +3 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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A Decrease in Psycho-Emotional Health in Middle-Aged Russian Women Associated with Their Lifestyle
(1) Background: The present study is aimed to determine the predicting role of objective (lifestyle) and subjective factors of middle-aged women’s psycho-emotional health such as their relations with parents, attachment and separation types.
Tatiana L. Kryukova +5 more
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Development of Dagestan poetry in 1970–1980s: historical and gender aspects
. The relevance. Due to the unflagging interest to the history of artistic culture of the peoples of the Russian Federation historical and gender aspects of the development of multinational Dagestani poetry in 1970-1980s have been covered in the article.
G. Sh. Kaymarazov, L. G. Kaymarazova
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
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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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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Literature and Revolution: Trotsky Versus the Poetesses
In Literature and Revolution, a classic of literary criticism and literary theory, Leon Trotsky gave attention to the work of several outstanding women writers. This article examines his critical treatment of these Russian women poets and their work.
Christine Doran
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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SPECIFICITY OF BELARUSSIAN-RUSSIAN BILINGUISM IN LITERARY TEXTS OF RUSSIAN-SPEAKING POETS OF BELARUS
The article is devoted to the study of the specifics of Belarusian-Russian bilingualism in poems of Russian-speaking poets of Belarus. The material of the study is poetic texts of Russian-speaking poets of Belarus.
E Y Muratova
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