Medical bloomers and irrational rationalists: pathologising the woman in trousers [PDF]
, 2019 This essay examines the troubling figure of the trouser-wearing woman within the visual field of mid-nineteenth-century medical culture. It explores what happens when trousers—emblematically associated with male rational thought—are adopted by women, a ...
Munford, Becky
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Learning Object-Language Alignments for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection [PDF]
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022 Existing object detection methods are bounded in a fixed-set vocabulary by costly labeled data. When dealing with novel categories, the model has to be retrained with more bounding box annotations.
Chuang Lin +7 more
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Persian and Chinese Art Exchanges Along Silk Roads [PDF]
, 1992 departmental bulletin ...
8228, Tadjvidi, Akbar M.
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Reticent romans: silence and writing in La Vie de Saint Alexis, Le Conte du Graal, and Le Roman de Silence [PDF]
, 2003 Apart from discourse and yet somehow part of it, silence is a powerfully ambiguous linguistic phenomenon that blurs the lines between presence and absence.
Bibbee, Evan J.
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Did Apparel (Eighteen-eighties - Nineteen-twenties) Help American Women’s Emancipation? A Socio-Literary Problematic Response [PDF]
, 2015 This essay endeavors to assess if and when and how some dramatic changes in American fashion (from the eighteen-eighties to the nineteen-twenties) contributed to women's emancipation.
Giorcelli, Cristina
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When spirit in Utter dismemberment finds itself : reflections on new confucian philosophy and the problem of historical discontinuity [PDF]
, 2014 In this article I inquire into the question of cultural continuity against the background of the problem of modernity through the medium of the specific case of New Confucian philosophy.
Van den Stock, Ady
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Pedagogical issues in fashion theory Fashion or dress? Pedagogical issues in fashion theory [PDF]
, 2019 In this article, I plan to reflect on the pedagogical challenges I’ve faced in myfirst semester of teaching fashion studies material at Parsons, speaking specifically to thechallenges I’ve overcome in leading my junior seminar, Supermodel: Beauty ...
Downing Peters, Lauren
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Between Letter and Spirit: The Ontology of Jewish Performance [PDF]
, 2021 This dissertation is an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic study that focuses on the discursive, gestural rituals and performance practices in the orthodox Jewish community in Toronto, Canada over the last decade.
Schwartz, Shira
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Dressing for the Times: Fashion in Tang Dynasty China (618-907) [PDF]
, 1994 During the Tang dynasty, an increased capacity for change created a new value system predicated on the accumulation of wealth and the obsolescence of things that is best understood as fashion.
Chen, Bu Yun
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Review of STILLMAN, \u3ci\u3eArab Dress: A Short History, From the Dawn of Islam to Modem Times.\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2002 Arab Dress: A Short History, From the Dawn of Islam to Modem Times. By YADIDA KALFON STILLMAN. Edited by NORMAN A. STILLMAN. Themes in Islamic Studies, vol. 2. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xxxii + 240, plates, figs. Billowing folds, exquisite pleats, tightly
Bier, Carol
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