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Frontiers in Energy Research, 2019 Rice cookers, social media, and television sets are commonly used in rural Nepal. In this paper we explore how gender norms condition the uptake of these artifacts, and the gendered implications of their uses. We draw on material from a household survey,
Margaret N. Matinga +2 more
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"For the Sake of Providing Comfort to All Imperial Soldiers Progressing on Every Front": An Analysis of Regulations on the Establishment and Management of a Japanese Panopticon Over "Comfort Women" [PDF]
International Journal of Korean History, 2023 Most sociological and historical accounts on sex trafficking and Japanese war crimes focus on conceptual and theoretical analyses concerning linkages between sex trafficking, social stratification, and victims.
Kyu-hyun Jo
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Tourists and the Carnivalesque
Journal of Festive Studies, 2023 This article uses the idea of the carnivalesque to “think through” party tourism as practiced by British charter tourists in the resort of Magaluf on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
Hazel Andrews
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Bitches and Witches: Grotesque Sexuality in Ovid’s Scylla (Metamorphoses 13.73014.74) [PDF]
Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, 2022 As paradigmatic emblems of fantasy and imagination, creative freedom and poetic license, hybrid monsters in Ovid’s Metamorphoses preside over the author’s playful engagement with traditional aesthetic, moral, and societal values, and gendered ideals ...
SEIDLER SOPHIE EMILIA
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Using episodes of ITV2’s Love Island (2016–2020) as a case study, this paper explores the extent to which reality dating shows perpetuate sexist attitudes towards women through a heteronormative focus.
Alicia Denby
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“Our one great national malady”: Neurasthenia and American Imperial and Masculine Anxiety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century [PDF]
Uisahak, 2021 White upper middle-class Americans at the turn of the twentieth century were entrenched in a battle with a newly discovered, or invented, mental illness called neurasthenia.
Yeonsik JUNG
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Yang Naimei - life practice of a chinese “flapper” of women's development in China
Trans/Form/Ação, 2023 As one of the earliest movie stars in China, Yang Naimei's life reflects the process of professionalization and modernization of Chinese women in the early 20th century.
Yanrui Xu, Junwei Wang
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Social Sciences, 2023 Within honor-related contexts, women’s appearances, actions, and life choices are closely tied to the honor of the entire family. As a result, women who opt to deviate from prevailing feminine honor codes are subject to violence as a means of restoring ...
Menal Ahmad
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The Place of Disgust: Disability, Class and Gender in Spaces of Workfare
Societies, 2012 This paper explores the role of disgust in mediating disabled women's experience of workfare in the Australian state. As global social policy has been restructured along neoliberal lines in Western nations, the notion of ‘workfare’ has been widely ...
Karen Soldatic, Helen Meekosha
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Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 2020 In this article, we present an extended case analysis of the unruly reception of the HPV vaccine in Denmark. More specifically, we explore what happens to visions of a healthy future when high levels of social trust in a public vaccination programme are
Stine Hauberg Nielsen +2 more
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