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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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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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"Their Shadows Still Walk with Us": Mapping a Decolonial Cartography of Struggle with Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa

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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Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
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Rethinking Societal Resilience as Deterrence: A Feminist Perspective on NATO and Ukraine's Experience

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent shifts in European security have placed resilience at the center of deterrence and defense strategies. While resilience has traditionally been understood as the ability to withstand disruption and sustain military operations, there have been calls for a whole‐of‐society approach that strengthens societies against hybrid threats and ...
Jan Daniel, Míla O'Sullivan
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Navigating Ethical Review Processes in Conflict‐Affected, Authoritarian Contexts: A Case Study of Myanmar's Interim Ethics Review Board (IERB)

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the formation and operation of Myanmar's Interim Ethics Review Board (IERB), which was established in November 2023 by displaced academics involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement against the 2021 military coup. Operating within a highly repressive, conflict‐ridden environment, the IERB exemplifies a locally‐led and ...
Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw, Su Su Maw, Nyein Chan, The Spring IERB Team   +3 more
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Formation of Business‐Nonprofit Collaborations: A Matching Approach

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business‐nonprofit collaborations are essential for addressing organizational and societal challenges, yet research has largely examined their formation from the perspective of a single partner rather than as a two‐sided process. In this study, we conceptualize collaboration formation as a dyadic matching process and examine two related ...
Andrea Rizzuni, Paola Garrone
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