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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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“It’s Me, Hi”—Taylor Swift’s Confessional Songwriting as Transmedia Meta-Autobiographies

Literature
Taylor Swift’s songwriting is frequently analyzed through the lens of confessional songwriting, blurring the boundaries between factual and fictional storytelling.
Stefanie Jakobi
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Laying Grounds for Dialogue: Exploring Anti‐Racist Activists' Negotiations of Emotions When Challenging Colour‐Blindness in Norway

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I explore how 36 Norwegian anti‐racist activists of colour negotiate emotions when engaging with the white majority population. Much recent research on racist ideology draws on Bonilla‐Silva's framework of colour‐blindness, arguing that the white majority nowadays is more likely to deny systemic racism.
Kine Marie Michelet
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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From Aryan Goddess to Pentagon Psyop

Americana
The alt-right has gained an unprecedented voice and visibility in the US since the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump. Maximizing their impact through the media and various online platforms, they have engaged in fresh approaches and innovative ...
Irén Annus
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What Does a Mixed‐Frequency Multivariate Beveridge‐Nelson Decomposition Tell us about the Australian Output Gap?*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
Economic indicators inform the assessment of economic slack for central banks, yet traditional output gap estimates are often limited by the substantial reporting lags of quarterly GDP. This paper extends a mixed‐frequency Bayesian vector autoregressive (MF‐BVAR) framework to the Australian economy by applying a multivariate Beveridge–Nelson (BN ...
Gilliane De Gorostiza‐Roudnitski
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The Life of A Swiftie: How Taylor Swift Maintains Social Capital Through Her Relationship with Swifties

J-Lalite
Social capital, a key concept within cultural studies, is particularly significant in the digital age, where community is often built through mediated interactions. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of American pop star Taylor Swift’s strategies
Merry Christiana, Bernice Amanda Mendoza
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