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The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives [PDF]

, 2014
This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness play an important role in
Aouadi, Leila
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Failures of Domesticity in Contemporary Russian-American Literature: Vapnyar, Krasikov, Ulinich, and Reyn

TranscUlturAl, 2011
Hybrid literature has flourished in the Russian diaspora in the last decade and much of it is semi-autobiographical, concerned with the reconfiguration of identity in emigration.
Karen Ryan
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Claiming space outside dominant narratives: feminist strategies based upon freedom and diversity, alternative God-talk and criticizing structures of authority [PDF]

, 2015
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van den Brandt, Hendrika
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture and the Conflict of Laws Style [PDF]

, 2012
The German chancellor, the French president and the British prime minister have each grabbed world headlines with pronouncements that their state’s policy of multiculturalism has failed.
Knop, Karen, Michaels, Ralf, Riles, Annelise   +2 more
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Chinese Digital Feminism Growing in a New Digital Soil: A Mixed-Method Study of the Transnational Construction of Gendered Collective Memory of Chinese Women on Instagram

Social Media + Society
As the space for discussing feminism and related issues on domestic social media platforms in China narrows, Chinese women and feminists are increasingly seeking new platforms that provide a more supportive digital environment for advancing gender ...
Haiwei Valerie Huang
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Rencontres intellectuelles et changement social: Henri La Fontaine et la Belle Époque [PDF]

, 2012
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Laqua, Daniel, van Acker, Wouter, Verbruggen, Christophe   +2 more
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2015
This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation.
Tuğçe Kurtiş, Glenn Adams
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