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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Lo strano caso delle streghe di Sicilia: donne de fora, streghe, fate e guaritrici (XVI‑XIX sec.)
ILCEA, 2022 The “donne de fora (Ladies from outside)” were specific figures that only appeared in the Sicilian trials of the Spanish and Ecclesiastical courts, and in the folkloric tradition.
Claudia Geremia
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Čarovništvo – diskurz ali praksa?
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2020 This paper challenges a generally accepted view that witchcraft is always a matter of discourse, and the witch a fictitious person who is ascribed bewitchment but, in fact, performed none. It discusses the hints that point to bewitchments being, at least
Mirjam Mencej
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2005 Abstract Beginning two years ago, the US Dept of Health and Human Services began "special reviews" of all current research grants that involved harm reduction, sex and drugs, and continues its ban on funding of needle exchange. With Bush's second term, the campaign was extended to all US funded international programs that dealt with these ...
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‘Viral’ hunts? A cultural Darwinian analysis of witch persecutions [PDF]
, 2019 The theory of Darwinian cultural evolution is gaining currency in many parts of the socio-cultural sciences, but it remains contentious. Critics claim that the theory is either fundamentally mistaken or boils down to a fancy re-description of things we ...
Boudry, Maarten, Hofhuis, Steije
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Demons, Witches, and Civil Peace. A Discussion on a Recent Edition of Jean Bodin’s Demonomania
Governare la paura, 2008 The essays discusses the recent edition of Jean Bodin’s Demonomania, edited by A. Suggi and translated by E. Cato, and published by Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
Rita Ramberti
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Storm Power, an Icy Tower and Elsa’s Bower: The Winds of Change in Disney’s Frozen
Social Sciences, 2018 In Disney’s box office sensation Frozen (2013), Elsa conjures powers rivaling those of Zeus, which is an echo of the shifting gender dynamics at the time of the film’s release.
Lauren Dundes +2 more
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ILCEA, 2022 This work considers the prophetic revelation that announces the arrival of an archaic Mother-goddess and the subsequent end of patriarchy in the film Witching and Bitching by Álex de la Iglesia.
Yenisey Rodríguez Cabrera
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The Distribution and Spread of (Homoptera: Aphididae) in the North-Central States with Notes on its Hosts, Biology, and Origin [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) Hyadaphis tataricae (Aizenberg). an aphid known from eastern Europe, is rapidly becoming a pest on ornamental honeysuckles (Lonicera spp.) throughout the north-central states.
Voegtlin, David
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Witchcraft and Women’s Spaces; A cultural Materialism Study of John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick
الأستاذ, 2018 Witch stories are part of American popular culture, and this culture is extremely influenced by a continuing reliance on its past. The modern obsession of Americans with witches, whether real or metaphorical, is related to politics especially when ...
Assist.Prof. Dr. Azhar Noori Fejer
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