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A Field Open to Women: Censorship of Children’s and Youth Literature Under Franco Through Women Readers
Women played a relevant role in the field of the censorship of children and youth literature in Franco’s regime. This is the subject that José Soto...
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‘Our Nightly Bread’: Women and the City in Ricardo Rangel’s Photographs of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1950s–1960s)
Ricardo Rangel’s photographic study of the Rua Araújo and red-light district near the harbour in late colonial Lourenço Marques (Maputo) poses new...
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Penalisation and Stigmatisation of Queer Life in the Eastern Provinces of the German Reich
The following chapter depicts the socio-political realities of same-sex desiring and gender non-conforming people in the eastern provinces of...
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Desire, Dread, and the Grateful Dead: The Bastille, Its Cadavers, and the Revolutionary Gothic Imaginary
The police had worked hard to maintain their secrecy and that of the state through many means, including the censorship of journalists and authors....
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Women and Novels: Educating the Female Public in the Age of Enlightenment
This chapter addresses efforts to govern the female public in the Age of Enlightenment, bringing to light the difficult relationship between...
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Sha** ‘Real Socialism’: The Normalised Conception of Culture
From the perspective of cultural and intellectual history, the 1970s and 1980s are often regarded as a period when the free-thinking ideals of the...
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Introduction
The 1936 adventure film Rhodes of Africa represents the historical convergence of missions, movies, and empire. In one scene, a Protestant missionary...
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The Experience of Prison in Finnish Female Inmates’ Letters from the 1880s to the 1900s
In this chapter, Johanna Annola explores Finnish female inmates’ experiences of prison by analyzing their letters. The letters were written in the...
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Returning the Gaze: The Visual Rhetorics of Resistance
This chapter provides an analysis of Cristian Mungiu’s film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by interrogating the relationships between visual rhetorics...
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Sándor Szathmári’s Dystopias and the Positivistic Simplification of Humans
Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974) was not a professional writer, yet his novel Kazohinia (1941) is one of the most influential dystopias in the Hungarian...
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The Circulation of Utopian Ideals in Hungary
The influence of Thomas More’s Utopia and the presence of utopian ideals in Hungary can be observed well before More’s book was first translated in...
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Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas
The upheavals of late eighteenth century Europe encouraged people to demand greater liberties, including the freedom to explore the natural world,...
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The State of the Literature
This chapter will explore interpretations of the relationship between Owenite socialism and religion, interpretations which differ in their...
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Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in South Africa
The Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 has come to be observed through a range of memorialisation processes aimed at confronting the past. Alongside the...
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“Lack of Clarity” and “False Premises”: Partnership and Translations in Impotence-Related Petitions for Marriage Annulment in Nineteenth-Century Spain
This paper aims to describe the evolution of the power relationship between the church and medicine in the definition of “normal” sexual behaviors...
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Media Environment in Taiwan from the 1950s to 2000
This chapter provides an extensive overview of Taiwan’s media environment, including the political and media system developments in Taiwan. It...
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The Moderate Optimism of the Enlightenment: Bessenyei in Totoposz
The first proper utopia that was written in Hungarian (not counting some lost pieces) is György Bessenyei’s Tariménes utazása [The Voyage of...
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“It Went All the Way Down to the Shoes”: Experiences of Institutionalization in the Danish Special Care System for the Intellectually Disabled, 1933–1980
It is difficult to imagine being institutionalized in a mental hospital or asylum without having experienced it yourself. While we have a wealth of...
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Embodied Boundaries of Historical Studies of Science: A Vision of Steven Shapin’s Historiography
Our work aims to analyze the way in which Steven Shapin rewrites the past of scientific practices while assuming both the artifactual character of...