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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
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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Enchantment of the past and semiocide. Remembering Ivar Puura

Sign Systems Studies, 2013
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Timo Maran
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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Contemporary applications of umwelt theory. Introduction

Sign Systems Studies
Contemporary applications of umwelt theory ...
Riin Magnus, Nelly Mäekivi
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Polysemy in Advertising [PDF]

The article reviews the conceptual foundations of advertising polysemy – the occurrence of different interpretations for the same advertising message.
Puntoni, S., Ritson, M., Schroeder, J.E.
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Peirce on Person: Peirce’s Theory of Determination and the Existence of Personality [PDF]

, 2016
In his theory of determination, Charles Peirce considered two processes of determination, the semiotic process and epistemology. The semiotic process is an extensional process from object to interpretant that consists of an infinite chain of references ...
Lee, Cheongho
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Exploring Young Students' Functional Thinking [PDF]

, 2013
The Early Years Generalising Project (EYGP) involves Australian Years 1-4 (age 5-9) students and investigates how they grasp and express generalisations.
Cooper, Thomas J., Miller, Jodie, Warren, Elizabeth   +2 more
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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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Eduardo Kohn’s guide to forest thinking

Sign Systems Studies, 2014
Review of How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human, by Eduardo Kohn. Berkley: University of California Press, 2013.
Riin Magnus
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Body ground red – integrating Peirce, Kristeva and Greimas

Sign Systems Studies, 2020
Ground (Charles Peirce’s concept) – regardless whether it be taken as motivation or abstractness – affords the proposition that some abstract categories of meaning have acquired their qualities via bodily experience. In order to show this to be the case,
Herman Tamminen
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