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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
wiley   +1 more source

Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower‐classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower ...
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
wiley   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the earthquakes in Türkiye on 6 February 2023, survivors continued their daily lives in tent cities, which emerged as a new heterotopic space where the boundaries between public and private spheres became intertwined. The transition from one's own ‘castle’ to a communal living space filled with uncertainties has heightened the ...
Handan Akyigit   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

A case with stereotyped movement disorder

open access: yesTuberculin skin test in children, 2015
Aylin Yetim   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Radical Pluralization: Mobilizing the Multiple Self in Democratic Engagements

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Hans Asenbaum, Taina Meriluoto
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Community‐Based Midwife Continuity of Care Models for Women Living in Areas of Social Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: A Prospective Cohort Study

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Addressing inequalities in maternal and newborn health is a UK public health priority. Evidence on effective multi‐interventional strategies is urgently needed. This study evaluated the impact of community‐based midwife continuity of care (CBMCOC) models for women and babies in ethnically diverse and socially disadvantaged areas of ...
Cristina Fernandez Turienzo   +28 more
wiley   +1 more source

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