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Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness

open access: yesPrzestrzenie Teorii, 2012
The topic of comparative analysis which is presented in this article is The Story of Beauty and The Story of Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco. Even the covers of these books show the contrast between men and women. How esthetic values build a feedback with
Krzysztof Obremski
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Ugliness and Nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper, I object to the view that ugliness is only apparent and that what might seem to be ugly is in fact beautiful. This view holds that ugliness is really just a variety of beauty, and there is no negative aesthetic value in the world.
Brady, Emily
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Quality of Life Following Massive Weight Loss and Body Contouring Surgery: an Exploratory Study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Reconstructive surgery is a major growth intervention for body improvement, enhancing appearance and psychological well-being following massive weight loss.
Gilmartin, J, Long, AF, Soldin M
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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The insight and innate tendency of human beings towards beauty and ugliness from the point of view of Allameh Javadi Amoli [PDF]

open access: yesاخلاق وحیانی
One of the ways to acquire knowledge in general epistemology is nature or conscience. In moral epistemology, it is about whether moral conscience exists or not, and if it does, does it have insight and tendency towards moral goodness and ugliness, and if
majid abolqasemzade
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The Studio and the Kitchen: Culinary Ugliness as Pictorial Stigmatisation in Nineteenth-Century France

open access: yes, 2013
Contribution à la session "Ugliness as a Challenge to Art History", colloque annuel de l'Association of Art Historians (AAH), University of Warwick, avril 2011.In Nineteenth-Century France, food contributed to representations of the ugliness of bad ...
Desbuissons, Frédérique
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Meeting on the Bridge: is it possible for secular feminism and public theology to work together? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, the argument is that secular feminism and public theology accomplish little in separation to one another. If both are working toward a more just horizon, their inability to work together simply confirms that their methodologies are flawed
Ramirez, Helen
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US Farm Bill in 2025: Ad Hoc Assistance becomes an Expanded Multi‐Year Safety Net Loi agricole américaine de 2025 : l'aide ponctuelle devient un filet de sécurité pluriannuel élargi US Farm Bill in 2025: Ad‐hoc‐Beihilfen werden zu einem erweiterten mehrjährigen Sicherheitsnetz

open access: yesEuroChoices, EarlyView.
Summary The 2025 US farm bill converts ad hoc farm assistance since 2018 into a projected US$ 62 billion farm safety net expansion within multi‐year legislation. Usually stand‐alone with strong bipartisan support, the 2025 edition is largely provisions in a far‐reaching, partisan budget law. The farm safety net is expanded by cutting food assistance to
Carl Zulauf, David Orden
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Climate Change: the citizen's agenda Evidence to Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
i). This paper summarises some results of research by the Open University of the key influences on the adoption – and non-adoption – by mainly environmentally-concerned UK citizens of low and zero carbon (LZC) technologies.
Caird, Sally, Roy, Robin
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