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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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Discipline and Punish at Camp: Citizenship and the Issue of Violence at a Swedish Boy Scout Camp

Nordic Journal of Educational History, 2018
This article examines reports of physical punishment at the national Swedish Boy Scout camp Åvatyr in 1950. The Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Expressen described the events in terms of bullying and violence, while the camp directors declared that
Björn Lundberg
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Åland – a peculiar media system

Nordicom Review, 2021
This article captures the dynamics of a special case when it comes to media systems, namely the Åland Islands, or Åland, with 6,700 islands and 30,000 inhabitants. Åland is one of three self-governed areas in the Nordic region (the others being the Faroe
Lindén Carl-Gustav
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Counter-indoctrinations: Radical childcare books, children’s literature and children’s rights in Sweden around ’68

Strenae, 2018
During the last hundred years, the Nordic countries have achieved an international reputation for attending to the child as an individual with rights of its own.
Olle Widhe
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
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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Why women's equal representation increases policy losers’ consent: Revisiting the double‐edged sword of procedural fairness

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies show that procedural fairness in the form of equal representation has the potential to increase decision legitimacy. At the same time, several studies point to potential adverse effects, where, for instance, the equal inclusion of women in decision‐making bodies might serve to legitimize anti‐feminist decisions in particular.
Mattias Agerberg, Lena Wängnerud
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The ‘Qur’an Crisis’ in the Swedish Press

Temenos
During the summer of 2023 news and debates about public burnings of the Qur’an dominated the Swedish and international media. In the aftermath of the flames and the debate this article aims to present and discuss the representation of the event as a ...
Mia Lövheim
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The Reception of D.S. Merezhkovsky’s Work in Sweden at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Based on Materials from the Archive of M.M. Kovalevsky [PDF]

Studia Litterarum
Based on Swedish newspaper and magazine clippings preserved in the M.M. Kovalevsky archive of the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Research Library, this study highlights certain trends in the reception of
Olga A. Blinova
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Integration's discourses in newspapers : an analysis of four Swedish newspapers

, 2004
This essay is about integration's discourses in newspapers. It compares four different newspapers with each other and it compares them also in a time perspective.
Ejeskog, Johanna
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