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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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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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Magical urbanism:Walter Benjamin and utopian realism in the film Ratcatcher [PDF]

, 2002
Deploys Walter Benjamin to discuss fantastical representations of childhood and class in the film ...
Law, Alex, Law, Jan
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Fantastyka świata prymarnego

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
This article is an attempt to discuss the issue of Primary World fantasy, fantasy set in the world we can identify as ours, which has so far been mostly absent in academic discourse. At the same time another type of fantasy, Secondary World fantasy, has
Rafał Dąbrowski
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Grimm et Once upon a time, entre contes et séries télévisées

Strenae, 2015
Grimm and Once Upon a Time offer a surprising example of two tv shows broadcast at the same time and relying on the same hypotext, the fantastic tale. And yet, these two television rewritings of the same intertextual substratum differ radically.
Isabelle Périer
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Performing class, performing genre : The squire of low degree as fifteenth-century drag [PDF]

, 2019
Despite the expansion of Judith Butler's theories of performativity which have proliferated since the publication of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity in 1990, few scholars have examined the implications that performativity may have
Heide, Melissa Louise
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Sexing the history of Indian anti‐colonial internationalism: White women, Indian men and the politics of the personal

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Surrealist Curation: Urban Domesticity Through the Surrealist Poetics of Analogy

European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2020
The tactic of surrealist poetic analogy forms the surrealist curation that functions as an agent that occupies, engages, and ultimately transforms the city and its built environment that surrounds us.
Ke Sun
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Mansfield, France and childhood [PDF]

, 2012
Mansfield’s ambivalent love affair with France, which flowered after 1912, also saw her tackling her great theme of childhood as she moved away from the style of the raw, outback New Zealand stories written in 1912/13 into a more impressionistic mode ...
Wilson, Janet M
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