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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain.
Emma Kalb
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Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
An increasing number of jurisdictions have introduced legal bans on so‐called ‘conversion therapy’ practices. Yet significant uncertainty and disagreement persist among legal scholars, policymakers and advocates about whether criminal law is an appropriate tool in this area and, if so, how it should be used.
Ilias Trispiotis, Stuart Goosey
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‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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CLASS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
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George Bacovia. A touchstone of Romanian symbolist poetry

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
Romanian symbolism, whose theoretician was the poet Alexandru Macedonski, discovers its authentic and original vision only in a later stage, through George Bacovia.
Cristina Mirela Nicolaescu
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A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins [PDF]

, 2017
Book review by Nelson Goering of A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R.
Goering, Nelson
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SCORING HIGH, PAYING UP, GATING IN: Middle‐class Formation and Asset Inequalities under Digital Capitalism in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how modern class dynamics become intertwined with automated classifications and data‐driven regimes of value creation under digital capitalism by demonstrating how housing markets shape asset inequalities and middle‐class formation in South Africa.
Julien Migozzi
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Символизм как художественно-эстетическое направление в культуре Украины начала ХХ века [PDF]

, 2015
SYMBOLISM AS A ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC DIRECTION IN CULTURE UKRAINE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY E. MELNYCHUKРассмотрены особенности возникновения и функционирования в украинском культурном про- странстве ХХ в. феномена символизма.
Мельничук, Е. Н.
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PFAS ubiquity as corporate accomplishment: Whiteness in early Teflon advertisements

Geographical Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination has attracted significant media attention. However, little is known about the efforts of chemical corporations to produce consumer markets for PFAS in the Global North.
Lauren Richter, Grace Poudrier
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