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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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Some Notes on the Tragic Writing of Antonio Gramsci [PDF]
, 2023 This essay considers the tragic elements present in Gramsci’s prison writings, including both the Prison Notebooks and the Prison Letters. It highlights specific moments in both the notebooks and the letters in which this tragic element presents itself ...
Almeida Rodriguez, Manuel S.
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Fate’ or ‘destiny’? Finding the subtle differences with a corpus-based technique
Studies in English Language and EducationThe nouns ‘fate’ and ‘destiny’ are terms often used interchangeably despite their underlying conceptual differences and are generally treated as synonyms by English dictionaries, such as the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Webster’s ...
Nateethorn Narkprom +1 more
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Deregulation, government failure, and tragedy: The Report of Phase 2 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract The Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower, London, in 2017 has exposed the failures that led to the tragedy in a commendably exhaustive manner. But the explanation of those failures is seriously inadequate. First, they are attributed to deregulation, when the Inquiry itself details the ways in which the cladding of the building was subject ...
David Campbell
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The Master's Problem: Revisiting Hegel's Critique of Social Domination
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Hegel's internal critique of the master in his famous ‘Master–Slave Dialectic.’ Hegel argues that, in addition to the evident injustice suffered by the enslaved, the arrangement also undermines the master's own purposes.
Stephen Cunniff
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Entrepreneurship: Cause and Consequence of Financial Optimism [PDF]
, 2014 © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by a greater margin than employees is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may foster optimism or intrinsic optimists may be
Arabsheibani, Gholamreza +4 more
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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
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An Analysis of Optimism : In relation to self-concept and time beliefs in female a dolecents [PDF]
, 1998 P(論文)The purpose of the present study was to clarify the features of optimism. To accomplish this aim, we investigated the relationships between optimism and other three variables which were self-concepts, time beliefs and commitment to preset.
神田, 信彦 +3 more
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