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Empirical Research on the Current Situation of Sister City Relationship:Example for the Japan-French Sister City

open access: yesEmpirical Research on the Current Situation of Sister City Relationship:Example for the Japan-French Sister City
The purpose of this study is to survey Japanese-French sister cities. In this study, over the two years of 2017 ― 2018 fiscal year, in Japan and France sister city relationship in recent years, we selected several local governments from Japan and France sister cities.
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Sister-City Relationships As a Form of Inter-Organizational Cooperation: Exploratory Case Studies in the Portuguese Context

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2014
The aim of this study is to identify, characterize and understand sister-city relationships in Portuguese municipalities as a particular form of inter-organizational cooperation.
Mário FRANCO, Elsa MARMELO
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IMPLEMENTATION OF SISTER CITY COOPERATION IN BANDUNG CITY AND BRAUNSCHWEIG CITY IN 2019-2021

open access: yesJurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional Fajar
Bandung collaborates with the city of Braunschweig in Germany in the form of sister city cooperation. The background to the sister city cooperation carried out by the two cities is the similarity in administrative systems, culture and education centers. Sister city cooperation is a manifestation of paradiplomacy.
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

open access: yesGender &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
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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