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The Active Street : Walkability and activity in urban design

The public space is receiving a growing attention among scholars for its role in the city. Spaces like squares and streets are more and more seen as sources of social values which provide citizens with community and trust. Adapting the city’s public spaces to suit this new role becomes essential but is, at the same time, not easily done since much of ...
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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<i>Reviving the forgotten:</i> breathing life into urban wastelands through skateboarding and decolonial placemaking in Nairobi, Kenya. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Tsipis A, Mashreghi S.
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Who Reads Criticism Matters: How Selective Exposure Affects Public Backlash to Foreign Shaming. [PDF]

Public Opin Q
Gruffydd-Jones JJ.
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‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
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"Stay committed on the frontlines": sustainability of the activism of social workers in Guiyang, China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Jin J, Tang S, Liu Y, Luo X.
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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Gender-based violence and the inclusion of men in GBV prevention campaigns: perceptions of students in a university in South Africa. [PDF]

Front Sociol
V I M, M B S, M R M, J K M, P M M.
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