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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
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State of the Field: Scientific Internationalism during the Cold War
History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a state‐of‐the‐field assessment of the historiography of scientific internationalism during the Cold War, focusing on three connected problems: the reconceptualization of science diplomacy, the emergence of ‘techno‐dissent’ and the ethical turn in the history of science and technology.
Doubravka Olšáková
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Authoritarian Othering Back and Feminist Subversion: Rethinking Transnational Feminism in Russia and Serbia [PDF]
This article examines the effect of rising authoritarianism on Russian and Serbian feminists. In both cases, regimes rely on what I term “Othering back.” Using “gender ideology” as a proxy for Western imperialism, they reappropriate postcolonial frames ...
Bias, Leandra
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Reconfiguring Abortion Infrastructures: An STS Analysis of Trends in Medical and Surgical Abortion in Post-Legalisation Contexts. [PDF]
Sociol Health IllnABSTRACT The growing dominance of medical abortion in liberal and post‐legalisation contexts raises important questions about patient choice, reproductive autonomy and the organisation of abortion care. Whilst existing scholarship has examined the sociotechnical implications of medical abortion, contemporary shifts in relation to surgical abortion ...
O'Shaughnessy A.
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Acting for Transnational Women’s Rights (but from East Berlin) : The WIDF and the Cold War
This chapter problematises the hegemony of Western feminist knowledge by looking at the history of the transnational women’s organisation, the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF).
Gradskova, Yulia,
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Parenting as Civic Action: A Relational Framework for Citizenship
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories ...
Lauren Erdreich +3 more
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Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2016 This paper maps a cartography of struggle to document the dynamic, living legacy of Menominee leader Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa and her contribution to the decolonial possibilities of transnational Indigenous feminism.
Sandra Álvarez
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how racial inequality persists within organisations alongside career advancement among racialised professionals. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with fifty Chinese professionals in Australia's Big Four firms, we examine how race shapes the recognition and conversion of economic, cultural and social capital in White‐dominant ...
Christine Han +3 more
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Women’s Activism and Second Wave Feminism: Transnational Histories
, 2017 Women\u27s Activism and Second Wave Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women\u27s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and ...
Molony, Barbara, Nelson, Jennifer
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