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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.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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The degenerative aesthetics of the dankest meme lords
The European Journal of Humour ResearchDrawing on historical and theoretical accounts that treat satire as a mobile mode rather than a fixed genre, I argue that satire’s political orientation cannot be predetermined: satire habitually oscillates between restraint and license, enforcing norms
Andrew Benjamin Bricker
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[Review of] Sipho Sepamla. A Ride on the Whirlwind: A Novel of Soweto [PDF]
, 1985 South African poet, playwright, and teacher Sipho Sepamla has in his second novel, produced a fictional but tensely revealing narrative of events surrounding the 1976 Soweto riots. Dedicated to the young heroes of the day, the novel chronicles daily life
Abbott, Linda M. C.
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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The Satire of Gerontophobic Ableism in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori: A “Salutary Scar”
Études ÉcossaisesIn recent years, the COVID‑19 pandemic highlighted the widespread reality of ableism and gerontophobia in many societies, as older and disabled people faced institutional violence.
Gabrielle Fath
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UV solar irradiance in observations and the NRLSSI and SATIRE-S models
, 2015 Total solar irradiance and UV spectral solar irradiance have been monitored since 1978 through a succession of space missions. This is accompanied by the development of models aimed at replicating solar irradiance by relating the variability to solar ...
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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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“It just tastes better than other meat…”
The European Journal of Humour ResearchThis article examines the trope of cannibalism in satire after Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal (1727), identifying its function as a form of satiric exaggeration and vehicle for deconstruction.
Adam James Smith
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, 1988 Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner Director: Dusty Reeds Musical Director: Charles Jewett Choreography: Janie Scott Set Design: Dusty Reeds Costumes: Elizabeth M.
San Jose State University, Theatre Arts
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